CURL review request

[Ary Manzana]

On 8/31/11 11:29 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On 8/25/11 8:53 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-08-24 20:36, jdrewsen wrote:
>>>
>>> One way that may improve this would be to move the static methods
>>> outside the class and make them into module functions instead.
>>>
>>> The drawbacks of this is:
>>>
>>> 1, When importing the module there would be more symbols polluting the
>>> namespace.
>>>
>>> […]
>> You could wrap the free functions in a Curl struct:
>>
>> Curl.get(...);
>>
>
> Please don't (ab)use classes/structs as namespace if you don't have a
> really good reason to do so – D offers static and/or selective imports
> for situation where one doesn't want to pollute the scope when importing
> something. When using free functions, one can always do »static import
> etc.curl;«, but there is no way back once a dummy struct is used (well,
> technically I think it would be possible to write a mixin template that
> aliases all struct members into the local scope, but…).
>
> David

Polluting the global namespace: it's called "dealing with the language" 
instead of "dealing with the problem you want to solve".