Robert Clipsham wrote:
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 works well for interfacing to COM.
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
If there's a bug in the mangling, please post to bugzilla.
