On Sunday, 8 September 2019 at 09:35:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
The C++ support has been improved kind of piecemeal over time,
and initially, none of it was documented. So, it wasn't exactly
fully planned out when it was added. IIRC, it was added
originally so that the dmd frontend could be moved to D. The
DIP process was very different at that point, and it was much
more common then for Walter or one of the other core developers
to just propose a feature in a PR and get it merged. I expect
that the oddities in the implementation stem from stuff that
whoever implemented it didn't think to try. The whole process
is much more rigorous now than it used to be.
- Jonathan M Davis
Good to know, thank you.
