Specifying C++ symbols in C++ namespaces

[Michel Fortin]

On 2014-04-06 19:39:31 +0000, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com> said:

> Unfortunately that seems to be years into the future? Although clang 
> has begun implementing something:
> 
> http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html
> 
> I've got at feeling that if clang gets something working it will become 
> a de-facto standard due to demand.

Modules are already in use on OS X for some system frameworks. It can 
result in slightly improved compile times. It has been enabled by 
default for new Xcode projects for some time. With modules enabled, 
clang interpret #includes as module imports for system frameworks 
having a module map. It's so transparent you probably won't notice 
anything has changed.

The only thing that really changes with modules is you don't have 
access to symbols you don't have imported yourself. D already works 
like that. I think D can ignore those modules, just like it ignores 
header files.

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