On Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 13:11:27 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 12:58:54 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
It shouldn't. The fact how entity is exposed via some external
binary interface should not have any notable impact on D side
of things (unless you dwell into ABI realm).
This is a design philosophical issue, you can make it normative
if you want, but only if it is consistent with the overall
design philosophy.
This is very practical thing. By introducing special constructs
to support some foreign language you open the can of worms. Where
does one stop? Should we also expect adding some new idioms for
better JNI support? Or Python? I can't see any reason why C++ has
to be any special and you can't nicely support them all. We don't
even truly do this for C and this the only real ABI standard.
