Jason House Wrote: > Don Wrote: > > > Interestingly since DMD has extern(C++), it ought to be possible to > > convert a single module to D, and still link it in... > > extern(C++) support in D is nearly a joke. There are some big areas for > improvement, such as support for non-virtual functions, or allowing use of > new, ... It's unusable to the point that I can't connect D code to existing > C++ or even write efficient wrappers. I've resorted to simply using extern(C) > code in C++ and then wrappers in D to use those functions...
>From what I know it was mostly intended for interfaces, and it works wonders >when binding to COM code in Windows. A lot of the new features of recent >windows versions are only available through COM, extern(C++) makes it dead >easy to write their bindings.
