On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 01:14:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 18:42:45 UTC, Kyoji Klyden wrote:
Thanks for the replies,
This issue really highlights one of D's weak points I think.
I've atleast got a round about solution almost working. :P
Really? I see it as one of D's strengths. It's much easier to
connect D with C than it is to connect other languages with C.
Essentially, you're just rewriting the C header in D and that's
it. It's as simple as it can get without the compiler being
able to directly parse C headers. In that case, the compiler
would either be needlessly complex or have a dependency on
something like libclang. This is much more appropriate for a
tool, not the compiler. Besides, it's quite easy to do it by
hand.
I agree. The last thing we want is C header files being valid D
code. It would make C programmers happy, but understanding those
ugly files would then become a requirement for anyone coming from
a different background, and that would not be good. Trivial
interoperability (even if it's inconvenient) that leaves the two
languages separate is far better.
