On 2013-02-28 20:28, Arlen wrote:
Having ported Boost.units to D, I can attest to this being a lot of work. I did try translating first and then refactoring the code, but that did not go well, mainly because of all the tricks and hacks employed when doing template meta-programming in C++ that did not translate well at all to D. With my first attempt I pretty much ended up with C++ code that was written in D, and that's not what I wanted. So I had to start over, refactoring and writing D code in D as I went. The problem with refactoring is that once you refactor a piece, chances are that you will need to refactor everything that depends on the code that was refactored, and that starts a domino effect.
That sounds more like one needs to figure out the intent of the code and not just look at the exact syntax. An easy example. C++ supports multiple inheritance, D does not. Trying to emulate that will most likely cause a lot of problem. But the use case in C++ could just be interfaces.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
