version and extern problems

[Georg Wrede]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bug 1311 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1311
> is about using version declarations to control part of a following 
> declaration (or series of declarations):
> 
> -------------------------
> version(Windows)
>     extern(Windows):
> else
>     extern(C):
> 
> typedef void function() foo;
> --------------------------
> 
> This does not work now, and it was a bug that it ever did appear to 
> work. The issue is that version declarations can only affect entire 
> declarations, not parts of them. An extern statement with a : is 
> implicitly the same as:
> 
> ----------------
> extern(Windows):
> int a;
> int b;
> -----is same as---
> extern(Windows)
> {
>    int a;
>    int b;
> }
> -----------------
> 
> That cannot be split up with a version declaration;


Why not

   extern(ecc) void function() foo;

where ecc would resolve to Windows or C.

This of course requires some tweaking of the compiler, but it might be 
worth it.