D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 8/21/2014 11:54 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> LOL. Yeah, well, it would be ni going to support C+ce if we could get an actual
> list of the C++ features that D currently supports somewhere (and how to use
> them if it's not obvious). You've been doing so much great work on that that I
> have no clue what the current state of things is. For instance, this is the
> first I've heard of anything about template support; I'd thought that we were
> never going to support templates. Is it just for name mangling or for actually
> compiling them?

The thing is, while the code was there, there wasn't a single test case for it 
in the test suite. Furthermore, at least for Elf, there was no support for the 
special mangling done for ::std:: stuff.

The thing is, modern C++ practice makes heavy use of std types. Having an 
interface to C++ code is fairly unusable unless D can also interface to 
std::string, std::vector, and a few others.

The first step is to support the mangling of them. Then, try to construct a 
"workalike" on the D side that follows D rules, and yet is able to seamlessly 
interact with the corresponding C++ code.

We'll see how far we can get with that, and then evaluate what to do next.

There are no plans for actually compiling C++ code with a D compiler. The plan 
is for support like we do for C - have a .d "header" file for it.