On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 5:14 PM Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> > > The entire point of having extern(C++, "NS") would be to make it so that > the > _only_ thing that it would affect would be the name mangling. Everything > else is exactly the same behavior as it would be if you had the same > functions as extern(D). It would be up to the programmer to organize them > exactly like it is with pure D code. If you think that putting two > functions > in the same module is too risky, then you can put them in separate modules, > but it certainly isn't going to be forced on you unless they actually > conflict. The fact that functions are extern(C++) would have no impact on > that whatsoever. > Yeah I get all this. It just seems to me that the downsides of extern(C++,"ns") from Walter's point of view could be handled by the compiler at the cost of a bit of flexibility. I would like to know how difficult that would be to do and whether that would be more acceptable to Walter than what is being being proposed.
