Go: A new system programing language

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:07 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mike Hearn:
>>>
>>>> With a few minor improvements (eg namespace support) that'd save a lot
>>>> of time.<
>>>
>>> This change to D language is not planned. You can explain why you think
>>> namespace support is useful (and you can explain those other minor
>>> improvements too).
>>
>> To be more specific, Walter thinks is good enough namespace support
>> (in addition to the fact that every module is a namespace).
>
>
> Essentially all the uses of C++ namespaces I've seen map nicely onto D's
> module system.

It's pretty common to see bits of a namespace get spread across many files.
There's no way to do that in D.  But I wouldn't go so far as to say
it's a necessity.

--bb