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On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 19:28:28 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 09:57:51 UTC, Atila Neves 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 15 February 2016 at 22:48:16 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I think that increasing language complexity for the sake of 
>> C++ integration is a dubious trade-off, especially since "all" 
>> that's required is correct name mangling. There's no guarantee 
>> of what the C++ side can do with any type of constness anyway, 
>> I'd say that any "extern(C++)" mangles as C++ would and leave 
>> it at that.
>>
>> Atila
>
> I agree with that concern. I would rather see the effort being 
> used to improve D - e.g support for GC-free code than to help 
> us integrate the complexity of C++ that D was intended to get 
> rid of.
>
> --Stephan

A usable `shared` would even be nice.