D/Objective-C 64bit

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2014-10-30 10:16, Martin Nowak wrote:

> 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.

Seems like a fair point, I guess I could change that. I prefer using a 
UDA for this.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg