On 12/14/2011 11:41 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I want to start this conversation by pointing out that I come from a C/C++/C#
background and my ideas and frustrations in this post will be colored by that
history.
When I first approached D, the idea of an 'export' confused me. I've since
figured out, at least in libraries, that in C# terms D's 'export' means
'public'.
I'm not too familiar with C#'s public, but what D 'export' means is a function
is an entry point for a DLL. In the Windows world, that means it gets an extra
level of indirection when calling it, and it corresponds to:
__declspec(export)
in Windows compilers.
However, this raise a problem, specifically, how do I export a
protected member from a dynamic library?
Do you mean how does one directly call a protected function inside a DLL from
outside that DLL, without going through the virtual table?
