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On Sunday, 23 November 2014 at 19:36:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-11-23 01:26, Mike Parker wrote:
>
>> Some people may prefer the bindings to include more D
>> features, but IMO
>> if you're going to put something out there for everyone and
>> anyone to
>> use, particularly if you want to be consistent with other
>> Derelict
>> bindings, it's better to avoid them.
>
> For more D features I would add a thin layer on top of the raw
> bindings. Like creating wrappers for functions accepting C
> strings and have them accept D strings instead.
>
> In this particular case I would probably have created the enum
> as one would do in D and the alias the enum members to make
> them accessible at module scope.
While I like language-friendly wrappers, they do tend to make
some choices. They require additional documentation since new
names and usage are introduced.
Sticking to the C API is choice-agnostic, existing documentation
can be reused.
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