On 3 September 2016 at 11:25, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 9/2/2016 6:12 PM, Stefan Koch wrote: >> >> If this feature were supported, it would probably break our module system. >> Even if we could shoehorn it into the language it would make the compiler >> slower. > > > Note that C++ needs ADL in part because it cannot do options 2, 3 or 4.
They're not solutions though, they're workarounds. They're all problematic, and highly unsavoury. Nobody is gonna go "oh, i really wish i could do those things in C++!", because the problem is already solved :/
