On 04/26/2014 09:27 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
We already have a feature to manage conflicts and organisation in D code - modules!
Named mixin templates are a much closer fit.
There is no need to add namespaces to do that, and if that's really what you want it belongs in a completely different discussion. ...
Why? Every name resolution rule added is already in D.
The thing we can't (easily) do is mangle C++ namespaces, so a feature that only affects mangling is perfect. i.e. We don't need namespaces in D, because modules cover that.
We only need namespace mangling.
Which is all the DIP adds. I do not really understand the objections.
