On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 6:22:55 PM MDT Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 at 06:00, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d > > <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On Sunday, 16 September 2018 at 17:46:26 UTC, Steven > > > > Schveighoffer wrote: > > > On 9/14/18 6:41 PM, Neia Neutuladh wrote: > > >> Specifically, Walter wants this to compile: > > >> > > >> module whatever; > > >> extern(C++, foo) void doStuff(); > > >> extern(C++, bar) void doStuff(); > > >> > > >> And he's not too concerned that you might have to use doubly > > >> fully qualified names to refer to C++ symbols, like: > > >> > > >> import core.stdcpp.sstream; > > >> import core.stdcpp.vector; > > >> core.stdcpp.vector.std.vector v; > > > > > > This is probably the best explanation of why the current > > > situation sucks. > > > > > > -Steve > > > > Agreed. Up until now, I didn't even understand the rationale for > > why it works the way it does. > > https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8667 > > O_O > > Thank you Walter for coming to the party!
Oh, wow. I sure wasn't expecting that. I thought that he'd made it pretty clear that a DIP was needed, and even then, it didn't seem likely that it would be accepted. This is awesome. I guess that he finally came around. - Jonathan M Davis
