Go: A new system programing language

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> It's pretty common to see bits of a namespace get spread across many files.
> There's no way to do that in D.  But I wouldn't go so far as to say
> it's a necessity.

Yeah, Andrei and I talked about that and if it was a worthwhile 
capability. We decided it was a misfeature in that it would subvert 
encapsulation.

For example, if any source file can add functions to a namespace, how 
can function overloading be reliable?

C++ namespaces are often considered a failure, and this is one of the 
reasons.