Why extern variables and functions within template/struct/class have a D mangling

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 5/8/13, Dicebot <m.strashun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, pardon me, I probably have exceeded my allowed daily rant
> limit :)

Don't worry, and I agree with you. But I think it's probably too late
to actually change what a linkage specifier does for nested symbols.
We might end up getting duplicate symbol definition errors (hello
Optlink..) in completely unrelated libraries if mangling changes for
these symbols.