extern(C++, ns) is wrong

[Danni Coy]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 07:06 Manu via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 20:59, Danni Coy via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > So my understanding is that the main issue with extern(C++,"ns") is
> functions that have different C++ name-spaces overriding each other in
> unexpected ways.
> > How feasible is to simply disallow functions/variables/objects/... with
> the same name but a different "ns" being in the same module?
>
> That's natural behaviour. You can't declare the same symbol twice in
> the same scope.
>

Sorry I meant in the instance where a function has the same name but a
different signature and the wrong function might be called because of
implicit promotion of a variable.

How feasible is it to have the compiler simply disallow this and force you
to put such functions in different d modules?
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