I've been experimenting with D's Better C mode, and I have a
question regarding something that I started thinking about after
watching one of Jonathon Blow's talks on data-oriented
programming - more specifically the aspect of fake "inheritance"
I have the following code. My question is if it's possible to use
alias in a similar way to Jonathon's own language Jai and its
using keyword, referencing the internal Vector2 as Player.pos
instead of Player.entity.position:
import core.stdc.stdio : printf;
uint idCounter = 0;
struct Vector2 {
double x,y;
}
struct Entity {
uint id;
Vector2 position;
}
struct Player {
Entity entity;
alias pos = Entity.position;
}
Player createPlayer(Vector2 position) {
Player player;
player.entity.id = idCounter++;
player.entity.position = position;
return player;
}
int main(string[] args) {
Player player = createPlayer(Vector2(50.0,50.0));
printf(
"[Player]\nid: %d\nPosition: %lf x %lf\n",
player.entity.id,
player.pos.x,
player.pos.y
);
return 0;
}