On 11/23/2012 5:06 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Friday, 23 November 2012 at 21:21:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/23/2012 5:57 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
There might be some incompatibilities, for example due to how the HANDLE type is
declared. In C, you can use either 0 or NULL as a parameter to a function
accepting an integer or pointer. In D, you cannot. IIRC, some types were
declared differently in Druntime's modules and in the win32 bindings.
If breaking code were not an issue, the best solution would be to make HANDLE a
unique, opaque type (like a struct wrapping an intptr_t or void*) - which is
exactly how it should be treated. It would need to support assignment/creation
from "null" though.
This is why I don't approve of attempts to "fix" Windows APIs. It winds up
being incompatible here and there, and breaks things.
I don't think I follow the logic of this argument.
Because if we take on the task of "fixing" Windows APIs, then we also take on
the task of documenting them, supporting them, educating people about them, and
invalidating the river of documentation that already exists on how to program
via the Windows APIs.
