DIP61: Add namespaces to D

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/26/2014 7:38 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> So, people didn't like the proposal last time you made the thread, so you made
> it again?  My objections from the last thread still stand.  Mangling is all we
> need, just add a pragma or attribute to add mangling and don't tie it to other
> language elements.

Having a pragma to just add mangling doesn't deal with problems like:

     namespace N { int foo(); }
     namespace M { int foo(); }

     foo();  // how to specify which one gets called?

I.e. only addressing name mangling does not scale. Need actual scopes, too.