Export ?

[Maxim Fomin]

On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 10:50:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned, Linux got this _right_ and Windows got 
> it completely
> wrong, and I do _not_ want to see export being used in D any 
> further than it
> is. It's bad enough that the export keyword exists at all.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I think the problem is deeper: C++, which you have mentioned, 
doesn't tell anything about libraries leaving programmer alone 
with unportable issues. So, the problem is inconsistent behavior 
across different implementations. It is better to say not that 
Linux got it right, but you were luckier with Linux, because its 
export policy was beneficial for you.

For example that bits Linux "everything is portable" policy, I 
had a cross platform project and thought that it would be safe to 
hide some internal functions but than i realized that it requires 
lots of unportable code.

If D would offer portable solution to this problem, it would be 
its yet another big win.