On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:45:14 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:37:36 -0400, Byron <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> why not import _cpp = bar; ? > > That doesn't help. foo.func() is still ambiguous. With this proposal, > you have hijacked the meaning of namespace lookup. When I say x.y.z, it > doesn't just mean look for symbol z in module x/y.d, it can also mean to > look for symbol z in C++ namespace x::y. This was not the case with C > binding, which continued to use D modules for symbol lookup. > > Consider that a boatload of C++ code is named std::something. Now, > std.string has an ambiguous meaning wherever it is used! > > -Steve
bar is renamed, thus you have to access via _cpp.[namespace] renames were added to prevent hijacking.
