On Saturday, 26 April 2014 at 18:18:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/26/2014 7:38 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
So, people didn't like the proposal last time you made the
thread, so you made
it again? My objections from the last thread still stand.
Mangling is all we
need, just add a pragma or attribute to add mangling and don't
tie it to other
language elements.
Having a pragma to just add mangling doesn't deal with problems
like:
namespace N { int foo(); }
namespace M { int foo(); }
foo(); // how to specify which one gets called?
I.e. only addressing name mangling does not scale. Need actual
scopes, too.
Ideally - use usual D tools of disambugation. Modules, static
structs etc.
Compromise - consider namespace definition from extern(C++)
during name resolution. But still keep actual feature tied to
"extern(C++)" to keep its use case clear.
