Re: Pointer to private structure

2016-12-19 Thread Nikhil Jacob via Digitalmars-d-learn
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

Re: Pointer to private structure

2016-12-18 Thread Nikhil Jacob via Digitalmars-d-learn
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.

Pointer to private structure

2016-12-18 Thread Nikhil Jacob via Digitalmars-d-learn
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

Re: How to override impure function from pure function

2016-12-12 Thread Nikhil Jacob via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 05:10:02 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 04:48:11 UTC, Nikhil Jacob wrote: In the D spec for pure functions it says that a pure function can override "can override an impure function, but an impure function cannot override a pure

How to override impure function from pure function

2016-12-12 Thread Nikhil Jacob via Digitalmars-d-learn
In the D spec for pure functions it says that a pure function can override "can override an impure function, but an impure function cannot override a pure one" Can anyone help me how to do this ?

Re: Check whether function/delegate uses any shared or global variables

2016-12-12 Thread Nikhil Jacob via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 12 December 2016 at 12:30:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-12-12 12:15, Nicholas Wilson wrote: there is the pure function attribute, how ever this still allows you to use globals *if you pass them as parameters to the function*. And it can access immutable global data.

Re: Check whether function/delegate uses any shared or global variables

2016-12-12 Thread Nikhil Jacob via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 12 December 2016 at 11:15:28 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Monday, 12 December 2016 at 11:02:21 UTC, Nikhil Jacob wrote: Is there any way to check whether a function/delegate passed to a function uses any shared or global variables ? I could not find any in std.traits. there is

Check whether function/delegate uses any shared or global variables

2016-12-12 Thread Nikhil Jacob via Digitalmars-d-learn
Is there any way to check whether a function/delegate passed to a function uses any shared or global variables ? I could not find any in std.traits.