DIP61: Add namespaces to D

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 04/27/2014 12:43 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 April 2014 at 21:57:55 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 04/26/2014 09:27 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> We already have a feature to manage conflicts and organisation in D
>>> code - modules!
>>
>> Named mixin templates are a much closer fit.
>
> Using named mixin templates for pure scope resolution is side effect and
> should be discouraged in any reasonable code.

I don't really advocate using named mixin templates directly as much as 
just the same lookup rules.

> There are specific D tools
> designed for that  from the very beginning

Named mixin templates are also 'designed for scope resolution from the 
very beginning' if that means anything.

> and we should use and/or fix those.

They don't fit. You simply cannot have multiple D modules per file.