extern(C++, ns)

[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 22:13:09 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> You can always write a module that all it does is import a 
> bunch of other modules, with a bunch of aliases which can be 
> used to make those imports appear in another namespace:
>
>    ----module core.stdcpp.vector----
>    extern (C++, std) { struct vector { } }
>
>    ----module core.stdcpp.string----
>    extern (C++, std) { struct string { } }
>
>    ----module stl------
>    private import core.stdcpp.vector;
>    private import core.stdcpp.string;
>    ...
>    extern (C++, std)
>    {
>       alias core.stdcpp.vector.std.vector vector;
>       alias core.stdcpp.string.std.string string;
>       ...
>    }
>
>    ---module user-----
>    import stl;
>
>    std.vector v;
>    std.string s;

The thought of needing to do that for (potentially) every single 
symbol being imported is depressing. What happened to DRY?