On 2010-10-25 12:31:47 -0400, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> said:
Michel Fortin:
That's why I changed course and abandoned my
bridge (the second in your list), working instead on making DMD
directly aware of the Objective-C object model. This way, you can have
extern(Objective-C) classes and use them as if they were D classes
(mostly), no wrapper class and no glue code necessary.
<http://michelf.com/weblog/2010/dobjc-dead-end-start-anew/>
It's a cute idea, and I presume those binding are useful, but if those
changes will not be folded back into the D language/compiler, then this
idea may eventually die out.
My goal is to have something that can be folded into DMD.
If for some reason Walter decides against it, I can still build an
installer that downloads DMD, patches it, and then installs it. Minus
the patch part, I already have such an installer with D for Xcode.
That's plan B.
But in all cases, the first step is to make it work.
And in my opinion this syntax is not very nice (but I remember why the
attribute syntax was not used, so this may be an acceptable compromise):
void getCharacters(wchar* buffer, NSRange range) [getCharacters:range:];
I'm not too concerned by the syntax, it's the easiest part to change in
the whole thing.
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Michel Fortin
michel.for...@michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
