DIP61: Add namespaces to D

[Michel Fortin via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-04-26 19:13:52 +0000, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> said:

> I think that trying to be compatible with C++ templates is utter 
> madness. But we can handle namespaces.

I'd argue that templates aren't the difficult part. Having struct/class 
semantics ABI-compatible with C++ is the hard part (constructors, 
destructors, exceptions). Once you have that, the difference between 
vector_of_int and vector<int> just becomes mangling. Same thing for 
template functions.

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