On Sat, 2018-10-20 at 16:37 +0000, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > > It turns out that translating C++ is *hard*. Partly because the > language is huge and complicated, but also partly because > libclang isn't all it's cracked up to be. But... dpp is probably > a few full work days away from being to #include <vector>. > Hopefully with the translation actually working.
This I can believe, but isn't the D-side problem only to be able to link to C++ libraries. Given previous emails this morning, clearly my current thoughts are creating D bindings for Qt and wxWidgets. > […] > > * std::is_reference is untranslatable: there are no reference > types in D. It's likely to get used with SFINAE, and while that > is translatable by hand, I have no idea how I'd write an > algorithm to figure out SFINAE when it happens and translate that > to template constraints in D. From what I hear at ACCU conferences, most C++ programmers can't handle SFINAE properly. -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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