[Development] Fornux C++ Superset

[Phil Bouchard]

On 04/25/2018 08:17 AM, Eric Lemanisser wrote:
> 
>     Support for nested structures is easy to fix and will just take a
>     day or
>     two to do so. For example:
> 
>     struct A
>     {
>         struct B
>         {
>         };
>     };
> 
>     Will be converted into the following so that I can have their
>     specialization in a top-level namespace:
> 
>     struct A__B
>     {
>     };
> 
>     struct A
>     {
>     };
> 
> 
> This would break existing code, as name lookup from nested class should 
> visit first enclosing class before visiting namespace. Also, the nested 
> class must have access to all names (private, protected, etc) to which 
> the enclosing class has access 
> (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/nested_types)

I forgot to mention that these rewritten structures are used to hold 
meta-data only, used internally.


Regards,
-Phil