extern(C++, ns)

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 21:40:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Please do not conflate not agreeing with my answers with not 
> responding.

I am not claiming that you weren't participating in the 
discussion threads or something like that. But in all your 
arguments you seem to presume that (badly) imitating the scoping 
semantics of C++ namespaces in D is somehow a given, that it is 
natural and does not need justification.

However, my position is (Manu and Daniel would probably agree) 
that this is not a valid assumption. To add a new feature to the 
language, the onus is on you to provide compelling evidence why 
it is necessary to have. You need to show that there is a 
"serious problem" with just using the native D namespacing scheme 
(modules) for the purpose, not the other way round.

  — David