Is there any good reason why C++ namespaces are "closed" in D?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Jul 30 02:09:37 UTC 2018


On 7/29/2018 1:52 PM, Manu wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 at 05:10, kinke via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> so that a straight C++ namespace => D module hierarchy mapping
>> would probably be required in the general case:
>>
>> ```
>> // cppns/package.d
>> module cppns;
>> extern(C++, "cppns") { void foo(); }
>>
>> // cppns/nested/package.d
>> module cppns.nested;
>> extern(C++, "cppns") extern(C++, "nested") { void foo(); }
>> ```
> 
> It's beautiful!
> 
> (but I added the quotes in there for you; without quotes is existing
> defined behaviour which introduces scopes)
> 

But that works now, I suggested it, and you didn't find it acceptable !!?!!


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