The proper case for D.

[Walter Bright]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> Your explanation sounds likely, however it seems VS is discriminating on 
> the per-symbol level...?

Let's say the C++ source file looks like:

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int foo() { ... }
int bar() { ... }
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it is compiled and put into a library. Your program references foo(). 
Pulling in the object module from the library that contains foo() also 
pulls in bar(), because bar() is in the same object module. If bar() 
references a bunch of other stuff, that gets pulled in, too.

VS may contain some scheme to split a source file into multiple object 
modules which prevents this.

Note that dmd will split a single source file into multiple object 
modules when you compile with -lib.