extern(C++, ns) is wrong

[Danni Coy]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 5:14 PM Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

>
>
> The entire point of having extern(C++, "NS") would be to make it so that
> the
> _only_ thing that it would affect would be the name mangling. Everything
> else is exactly the same behavior as it would be if you had the same
> functions as extern(D). It would be up to the programmer to organize them
> exactly like it is with pure D code. If you think that putting two
> functions
> in the same module is too risky, then you can put them in separate modules,
> but it certainly isn't going to be forced on you unless they actually
> conflict. The fact that functions are extern(C++) would have no impact on
> that whatsoever.
>

Yeah I get all this. It just seems to me that the downsides of
extern(C++,"ns") from Walter's point of view could be handled by the
compiler at the cost of a bit of flexibility.
I would like to know how difficult that would be to do and whether that
would be more acceptable to Walter than what is being being proposed.
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