extern(C++, ns) is wrong

[Atila Neves]

On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 09:56:52 UTC, Zot wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 23:30:33 UTC, Jonathan M 
> Davis wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:43:47 PM MDT Manu via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I'm not disagreeing, but I'm not the person who needs to be 
>> convinced. Either way, a DIP needs to be produced which
>>
>> [...]
>
> As someone who does a lot of c/c++ binding I am 100% in favor 
> of Manu's extern(C++, "ns")
> I also want to point out that extern should work in mixins (see 
> bug https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12575).
> So probably a good idea to clearify interactions like that in a 
> DIP as well.
>
> - Zot

I'm also completely in favour of what Manu is saying. The current 
situation works for no one. I very much doubt that any D 
programmer exists that wants what extern(C++) currently does.

Yes, C++ namespaces are a mess. Who cares? We have modules. All 
we want is to be able to link.

Walter pointed out workarounds, but: they're solutions to a 
problem that shouldn't exist; are ugly as sin; aren't even 
sufficient for manually writing bindings in the way the author 
intends.

Forum chatter won't do it though, we need a DIP.