Re: Pointer to private structure
On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 10:14:49 UTC, Ali wrote: On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 06:42:27 UTC, Nikhil Jacob wrote: [...] What're you trying to do here? Forward declarations in C++ are used to solve a few different things: 1. Reduce build times (unneeded in D AFAIK) 2. Break cyclic references (unneeded in D again?) 3. Give APIs visibility (D's modules and Access layers solve this) 4. Maintain binary compatibility while allowing internal data changes (aka pimlp idiom) <-- This I believe you cannot do in D - https://wiki.dlang.org/Access_specifiers_and_visibility (someone correct me if I'm wrong) I've seen something about .di files in D. But they seem flakey a bit. I was trying to do something similar to pimlp idiom. But after thinking over it, I found a better way in D. Thanks for pointing to the wiki
Re: Pointer to private structure
On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 06:42:27 UTC, Nikhil Jacob wrote: On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 06:21:10 UTC, ketmar wrote: i bet that just trying this with D compiler will take less time than writing forum post. I did try but it seems to give compilation failure... Let me try once more and I will get back with more details. What're you trying to do here? Forward declarations in C++ are used to solve a few different things: 1. Reduce build times (unneeded in D AFAIK) 2. Break cyclic references (unneeded in D again?) 3. Give APIs visibility (D's modules and Access layers solve this) 4. Maintain binary compatibility while allowing internal data changes (aka pimlp idiom) <-- This I believe you cannot do in D - https://wiki.dlang.org/Access_specifiers_and_visibility (someone correct me if I'm wrong) I've seen something about .di files in D. But they seem flakey a bit.
Re: Pointer to private structure
On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 06:21:10 UTC, ketmar wrote: i bet that just trying this with D compiler will take less time than writing forum post. I did try but it seems to give compilation failure... Let me try once more and I will get back with more details.
Re: Pointer to private structure
i bet that just trying this with D compiler will take less time than writing forum post.
Re: Pointer to private structure
On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 05:51:09 UTC, Nikhil Jacob wrote: In C, we can define a struct without body in an include file and use pointer to that structure For examples in public header file. struct data; data* new_data(); We can then define the elements of struct data privately inside the implementation of library. Can we do this in D without using void* ? Yes.
Pointer to private structure
In C, we can define a struct without body in an include file and use pointer to that structure For examples in public header file. struct data; data* new_data(); We can then define the elements of struct data privately inside the implementation of library. Can we do this in D without using void* ?
