On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 07:34:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
You cannot both have CTFE/inlining/templates and hide the
source code. It's the same as in C++.
Yes I am aware of that limitation, nothing can be done except
lose the flexibility of templates and so forth, or keep it and
expose the source code.
For classes and structs, I have no idea how to leave out the
implementation details.
You can either use an interface or just not provide an
implementation for the methods. Note that it's perfectly fine
to have a method in D without an implementation even it's not
abstract. This is to support the use case you have here and
separate compilation.
I figure that's the best approach, but I am not sure how to not
supply the implementation for a module, since in D there doesn't
seem to be a separation of interface and implementation.
I guess you would need to list the fields on classes/structs,
again that's just like C++.
I have not yet seen examples or documentation explaining how to
separate interface and implementation from a class or struct. Are
you sure this can be done?
--rt
