On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 09:56:52 UTC, Zot wrote:
On Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 23:30:33 UTC, Jonathan M
Davis wrote:
On Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:43:47 PM MDT Manu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
I'm not disagreeing, but I'm not the person who needs to be
convinced. Either way, a DIP needs to be produced which
[...]
As someone who does a lot of c/c++ binding I am 100% in favor
of Manu's extern(C++, "ns")
I also want to point out that extern should work in mixins (see
bug https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12575).
So probably a good idea to clearify interactions like that in a
DIP as well.
- Zot
I'm also completely in favour of what Manu is saying. The current
situation works for no one. I very much doubt that any D
programmer exists that wants what extern(C++) currently does.
Yes, C++ namespaces are a mess. Who cares? We have modules. All
we want is to be able to link.
Walter pointed out workarounds, but: they're solutions to a
problem that shouldn't exist; are ugly as sin; aren't even
sufficient for manually writing bindings in the way the author
intends.
Forum chatter won't do it though, we need a DIP.
