On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 22:20:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I've got an enhancement request to have it behave like
extern(C):
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12894
Thoughts? Anyone use extern(Windows) on non-Windows systems?
That example of "I want this calling convention on platform X and
that other convention on platform Y" points to the deeper problem
that (without a preprocessor) you can't do something like this in
D:
version(Windows)
alias extern(Foo) = extern(Windows);
else
alias extern(Foo) = extern(C);
extern(Foo):
void foobar();
int baz();
That reasoning also applies to various other attributes. IMO,
repeating all of the declarations for the multiple variants you
might want is not the right answer (DRY principle, etc.).
