Should #line create a new namespace ?

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 09:23:38 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On 09/24/2016 10:14 AM, Basile B. wrote:
>> When the file is specified, Shouldn't #line create a new 
>> module ?
>> [...]
>> Currently this is not allowed, but what's the value added by 
>> the filename then ?
>
> It was used to easier debug string mixins by changing their 
> filename in reported errors. Now it is done by compiler by 
> default and I don't know if any other use case remains.
>
> But is definitely is not intended to create a new module, D 
> relies on strict 1-to-1 matching between files and modules.

Then I suggest to deprecate it. It was not totally illegitimate 
to think that it allows to create a new module.

Also since no more special token sequence would exist in the 
language, special token sequence could be removed completely.