DIP61: Add namespaces to D

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/26/2014 5:37 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> import std.stdio;
>
> namespace g{
>      int foo(int a){ return a; }
> }
> namespace g{
>      string foo(string a){ return a; }
> }
>
> void main(){
>      writeln(foo(2));
>      writeln(foo("a"));
>      writeln(g.foo(2));
>      writeln(g.foo("a"));
> }
>
> Both examples should still work if the two mixins/namespaces occur in (possibly
> different) imported modules. I think this would be in line with how lookup is
> generally handled in D. (Note that I am not suggesting to make namespaces
> extensible, but rather to make them overloadable.) How do you think about this?

Yes, that's how I anticipate it working. That's just following existing rules.