DIP61: Add namespaces to D

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 26 April 2014 at 09:31:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP61
>
> Best practices in C++ code increasingly means putting functions 
> and declarations in namespaces. Currently, there is no support 
> in D to call C++ functions in namespaces. The primary issue is 
> that the name mangling doesn't match. Need a simple and 
> straightforward method of indicating namespaces.
>
> There have been many proposals earlier:
>
>   http://forum.dlang.org/post/lhi1lt$269h$1@digitalmars.com
>
> but it seems to me that the simplest, most straightforward 
> approach would be better.
>
> As more and more people are attempting to call C++ libraries 
> from D, this is getting to be a more and more important issue.

BTW, can't we just handle this automatically in a tool like 
DStep, with the help of pragma(mangle).

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/Jacob Carlborg