D/Objective-C 64bit

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 18:23:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> A DIP is available here [1] and the latest implementation is 
> available here [2].
>
> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP43

Instead of adding the selector syntaxsyntax you could reuse 
pragma mangle.

extern (Objective-C)
class NSComboBox : NSTextField
{
     private void* _dataSource;

     pragma(mangle, objcMangle!(NSComboBox, 
"insertItemWithObjectValue", "atIndex")
     void insertItem(ObjcObject object, NSInteger value);
}

Alternatively a compiler recognized UDA would work too.

     @objcSel!("insertItemWithObjectValue", "atIndex")
     void insertItem(ObjcObject object, NSInteger value);

Changing the lexer and parser would affect all D language tools 
(editors, formatters, linters, other compilers). So now that we 
do have UDAs I don't see a justification for changing the syntax 
and grammar of D.