On Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 20:47:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/2/2014 3:07 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
One downside of this proposal is that if we ever (perish the
thought!) attempted
to interface to C++ templates, this design would preclude that.
Yes, this seems to be a fatal flaw. Another design that has
evolved from these discussions and my discussions with Andrei
on it:
extern (C++, namespace = A.B) { void foo(); void bar(); }
extern (C++, namespace = C) void foo();
bar(); // works
A.B.bar(); // works
foo(); // error: ambiguous
C.foo(); // works
alias C.foo foo;
foo(); // works, calling C.foo()
I really think the namespace semantics should be attached to
the extern(C++) rather than be a separate pragma. Having the
namespace= thing means that namespace isn't a keyword, and
provides a general mechanism where we can add language specific
information as necessary.
I actually like this idea the most. It is clean, and easy to
understand.
