On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 17:55:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Found and fixed another fwd ref problem with circular imports:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5333
This one had nothing to do with C++ namespaces; it showed up
for structs and classes, too. This implies that the current
design is sound, and a redesign is not necessarily desirable.
By reading Manu's post, I was under the impression that it was
actually impossible to use the C++ symbol _without_ the full
namespace path, like with static imports. I should have checked
this, because it turns out this isn't true at all. I agree then
that the current design is mostly ok, especially with your bug
fixes.
But there remains the issue of using D keywords in C++
namespaces. Maybe there could be a variant `extern(C++,
"ns1.ns2.as.string")`, that doesn't create symbols and affects
mangling only?
