On Wednesday, 30 January 2013 at 21:58:53 UTC, Zach the Mystic
wrote:
Also, because the "namespace_thingy"s have so much in common
with structs, I think it would be misleading to call them
something else.
The problem of using empty struct variables is that they take up
memory. They have to, because you can make a pointer to a
variable and then you can dereference that variable. There has to
be at least a byte of memory to dereference.
So, really, the only zero-overhead way to do this is to introduce
a new keyword that creates something that you can't take the
address of, because it kind of doesn't exist (like a namespace).
It exists only in the sense that it can be used to tell the
compiler which operators and functions to call. That's what my
namespace_thingy is.
