On 12/05/10 13:50, BLS wrote:
Hi, I think nearly nobody is using extern (C++) 'cause of it's limits. So why not drop it ? IMHO this feature is not a " D2 sales argument", instead it's vs. productive. What do you think ? Bjoern
It should be possible to implement extern(C++) using ctfe/string mixins, as all that needs doing is the name mangling. This is something tools does, allowing you to have the equivalent in D1 [1].
Add to this C++ name mangling doesn't work a lot of the time on linux[2]. I think it's definitely possible to replace it with something in std, possibly based on the code from tools. If it's dropped it does mean a chunk of ddmd will need rewriting, I don't see this as too much of an issue though.
[1] http://dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/tools/tools/cpp.d [2] http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4059
