On Friday, 4 December 2015 at 06:57:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/3/2015 12:59 PM, Dicebot wrote:
This isn't any different from namespace struct idiom, is it? I
don't like it
because it forces the namespace usage even if it isn't needed.
If you use mixin templates, you can use or not use the
namespace. prefix.
True, that didn't come to my mind. But that pushes resulting
coding style from "weird but tolerable" to "good luck explaining
newbies why D modules are not broken". All for the sake of a
putting a dot in the name. Look at perspective for a moment think
if you would be happy to use a language which avdertises such
approach as idiomatic (for one of most basic language operations).
