On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 13:10:07 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 09:56:52 UTC, Zot wrote:
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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.
Someone is already on it.
https://github.com/look-at-me/DIPs/blob/please-for-the-love-of-all-things-good-and-holy-fix-cpp-mangling-please-ok-sorry/DIPs/DIPxCPP.md
