Re: Specifying C++ symbols in C++ namespaces

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 22:06:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

Here's Andrei's proposal:

    extern (C++) template nspace() {
        int foo();
    }

It would be accessed in D by:

   nspace!().foo();

A possible enhancement would be to allow (for all templates with no parameters):

    nspace.foo();

Note that:

    template nspace() {
        extern (C++) int foo();
    }

would not put foo() in a C++ namespace, although it would still be accessed from D as:

    nspace.foo();

One downside of this proposal is that if we ever (perish the thought!) attempted to interface to C++ templates, this design would preclude that.

I'm not familiar with usual C++ mangling as much as D. Are
template and namespace mangled the same way ?