Factory design

[Ameer Armaly]

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>> extern(C) works because the name of the function doesn't get mangled.
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> Ohhhh yeah.  I ran into the same thing on another thread about 15 down 
> from this one..
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> This is a real problem.  Mangling function names with module names is a 
> good idea on the surface, but it makes it impossible to declare a function 
> in one module and define it in another without some ugly hacks and serious 
> restrictions.
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> Something needs to be done to solve this, such as not mangling module 
> names into the names of functions which are declared "extern."
I agree.  Perhaps with some sort of marker to designate them as 
module-independent if you will; you would be saying with extern that this 
function is meant to be declared anywhere.
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