Proposed improvements to the separate compilation model

[Dicebot]

On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 at 10:41:36 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-03-05 09:48, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> I can find nothing on the topic of "separation" issue down 
>> that link. In
>> fact I have never met a C/C++ programmer saying fact of having 
>> a
>> separate headers is a problem, it was a loved feature if 
>> anything.
>> Problem was the way it was designed, via pre-processor. D 
>> fixes this by
>> introducing real symbolic imports and that is good, but 
>> completely
>> irrelevant to the topic of separation of interface and 
>> implementation.
>
> We are all here :)

Well, that is why I am so surprised and asking for rationale with 
better explanation than "it is obvious". I am rather astonished 
by an overall negative reaction to a long awaited (by me) Andrei 
proposal.