So far, we got 3/5, also attributes were re-proposed almost equally by someone else (maybe 4/5), so I'm happy that even though I couldn´t work with that and participate in last years 😞, some convergence emerged 😛!

Convergence is always a good sign :)


Back in the day I thought about a "is_first_redeclaration" predicate, I don't know if somebody else considered something like this, compilers probably maintain a pointer to previous declarations in redeclared AST Nodes, so it is probably cheap acquire this info, and even if you get out-of-order function declarations in different compilations units you still can get the same function name and parameter types, even in cases when parameter names are different;

That's not implementable in GCC without major surgery because it merges declarations. There is no first and last declaration, only the most recently seen. I don't believe it's the only compiler that works this way.

The approach described by P2237 is to only visit one declaration.


What is written in the proposal p1240r1.pdf page 36 puzzled me :

  "Of note here is that we are not proposing a function to retrieve members of namespaces: Due to their”open scope” nature, we believe that capability is somewhat meaningless. There is however no known technical reason preventing us from doing so."  

I interpreted "meaningless" in the sense of "not useful", by the previous answers I presume that "yes it has good uses" and also there are known technical issues. 
 
I think at the time of writing, we didn't have any solid use cases in mind.

Andrew