DIP61: Add namespaces to D

[Tobias Müller via Digitalmars-d]

Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 4/26/2014 12:27 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> We already have a feature to manage conflicts and organisation in D code -
>> modules!
> 
> True. But what D doesn't have is a global namespace. I don't propose one
> for D, but C++ symbols may appear in the C++ global namespace, or in a
> C++ namespace. So using D modules to represent C++ namespaces has a problem.

But C++ namespaces and D modules don't have to match at all. You can import
any C++ function from an arbitrary namespace into any D module, just as you
like.
Also, I guess there is a reason, why D doesn't have a global module.

Tobi