On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On 10/18/2009 08:06 AM, Christian Schladetsch wrote:
D is indeed interesting. But I wonder how far C++ can be taken with M4/C++ before it breaks.
...which seems to imply it isn't already broken. (Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-) )
Heh, I have actually been playing with the idea of porting some D concepts into C++ in the Clang compiler when C++ in it is more mature, call it CD or something. Not everything from D, but D's templates and mixins are a *must*, as well as a lot of the static compilation abilities. Would be fully backwards compatible (something nice about the D syntax is it is designed to fit into C++, not replace, its templates use the !() syntax instead of <> for example) while bringing in the power that D is better at. Would be nice to bring in the new array handling functionality, but not sure that would fit in as well without breaking old code. Hmm, looks like D can link in to C++ code too now, was not able to before; considering that, I may have to take another look at it...