On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 17:03:10 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 16:35:05 UTC, foobar wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 14:59:43 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 14:48:27 UTC, foobar wrote:
[...], what if I find it useful to use e.g. FORTRAN code,
should the relevant functions also be in the stdlib?
No, FORTRAN has absolutely nothing to do with D. C, on the
other hand, does. Both druntime and Phobos depend heavily on
the C stdlib. The GC uses malloc/free, std.stdio.File is a
wrapper around FILE*, etc.
-Lars
Irrelevant. For all I care druntime could be implemented in
Klingon. That doesn't mean its API needs to include Klingon as
well. That's called "encapsulation".
Um... so you don't mind the C/POSIX declarations being there,
you just want them to be private so you aren't tempted to use
them in your own code?
-Lars
Yes, pretty much.
They are an implementation detail of druntime/phobos.
Other vendors may choose to implement the tool-chain with another
language in mind and as long as the API remains the same I
shouldn't need to care e.g. how the GC allocation is implemented
(Perhaps it's done with FORTRAN's memory allocation routines).
If I ,the user, want to interface with C I need to use the
"official" C headers in Deimos. This is after all the official
location for that.
