extern(C++, ns)

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/7/2016 9:02 AM, Carl Sturtivant wrote:
> I should have noticed this too; so in fact the current design can be used
> ignoring the scope modeling the C++ namespace. If the details of using such an
> external name in that fashion are identical to any other name at module scope in
> every context, then I therefore concede that the design is OK, because it may be
> treated as the alternative suggested in various ways in this thread by simply
> ignoring the new scope by not using its name.


The idea is most definitely that it follows the usual D scoping and name lookup 
rules.

Note that 'alias' works much like symbolic links do in the Linux filesystem, in 
that it can make names appear in multiple scopes without needing qualification.