Specifying C++ symbols in C++ namespaces

[Michel Fortin]

On 2014-04-03 19:43:23 +0000, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> said:

> On 4/3/2014 3:36 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
>> I'd tend to simply implement extern(C++, namespace.here), which should 
>> work fine
>> to wrap single-namespace cpp files, and wait to see what are the actual 
>> friction
>> points before introducing more (people can experiment with structs or other
>> modules meanwhile).
> 
> You have a good point in that to go all the way with namespaces, we'd 
> have to implement Koenig lookup and support insertion of names into 
> previous namespaces.
> 
> I can't see this happening in D.

Me neither.

> But I don't see that as much of an argument to not do simple scoping 
> with namespace lookup.

What I'm saying is that it should be optional to create a new scope to 
declare a C++ function from a namespace. In other words you need to be 
able to put the function at module scope in D.

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