On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 07:55, 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 13:10:07 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: > > On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 09:56:52 UTC, Zot wrote: > >> [...] > > > > I'm also completely in favour of what Manu is saying. The > > current situation works for no one. I very much doubt that any > > D programmer exists that wants what extern(C++) currently does. > > > > Yes, C++ namespaces are a mess. Who cares? We have modules. All > > we want is to be able to link. > > > > Walter pointed out workarounds, but: they're solutions to a > > problem that shouldn't exist; are ugly as sin; aren't even > > sufficient for manually writing bindings in the way the author > > intends. > > > > Forum chatter won't do it though, we need a DIP. > Someone is already on it. > https://github.com/look-at-me/DIPs/blob/please-for-the-love-of-all-things-good-and-holy-fix-cpp-mangling-please-ok-sorry/DIPs/DIPxCPP.md
I can't wait for a DIP. That's like 12 months turnaround, and I've already lost weeks waiting for some trivial PR's about version identifiers that are still pending... this will take years.