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

[Manu]

On Wed., 24 Jul. 2019, 4:05 pm Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d, <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 7/24/2019 2:56 AM, Manu wrote:
> > Just kill me and bring me peace.
> > I lose my mind trying to argue with you, and get so frustrated and
> angry, I just
> > have to take a week or 2 timeout.
>
> On the other hand, you've gotten:
>
> 1. user defined attributes
> 2. rvalue reference parameters
> 3. restricted shared access
> 4. mixin types
> 5. the namespace string thing
>

Don't forget extern(C++), @nogc, win64... ;)

>
More than 10 years and a crazy amount of time arguing for some of those
though!

But this isn't like that... This isn't in the major or controversial
feature category, it's just a bug... but apparently it's not; it's by
design, and the design is great.

>
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