Pseudo namespaces

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/03/2015 09:37 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 12/3/15 9:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/03/2015 08:59 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> On 12/3/15 8:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> On 12/03/2015 05:59 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> alias stableLinearXxx = linearStableXxx;
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't scale. -- Andrei
>>>
>>> To what? How many nested namespaces are you planning?
>>
>> Many functions, not many namespaces. One declaration per function is
>> fail. -- Andrei
>
> It seems worse with namespaces:
>
> 1. a linear namespace
> 2. a sub namespace for linear.stable
> 3. a function definition for linear.stable.foo
> 4. a stable namespace
> 5. a sub namespace for stable.linear
> 6. an alias (I'm assuming you're not repeating the function definition
> here) for stable.linear.foo to linear.stable.foo
>
> Perhaps my strawman isn't what you were thinking, let me know. It
> appears to me that you will need more machinery for namespaces.
>
> -Steve

I don't get your point. Mine is there are many methods and few named 
scopes aka namespaces. So I'm okay to scale declarations linearly with 
number of named scopes but not with number of methods. -- Andrei