extern(C) names are being mangled; that's crazy, Walter says I'm crazy

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2019 at 05:03:16 UTC, Manu wrote:
> I can't believe the idea that extern(C) functions being mangled 
> to un-knowable generated names is what any sane user would ever 
> expect.

I have used this pattern for callbacks before without even 
thinking about it, and it just worked. I have also hit some 
annoyance like you saw (and before pragma(mangle) it was really 
annoying, now it is just "huh i forgot to do that").

I wonder if you have ever done a callback use case too and never 
even noticed it exactly because it just works, but then pay a lot 
of attention to this because it doesn't.