DStep - Bindings Generator 0.0.1

Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 30 04:50:32 PST 2015


On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 12:43:14 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-30 13:01, Chris wrote:
>
>> Just brain storming (i.e. some output may be nonsense):
>>
>> - dimp [1] (D + import) [2]
>> - dimpc (pronounced "dimps")
>> - dimplink
>> - cimport
>> - cimpleD
>> - DiCe (D importing C external / extensions - you would want 
>> the 'e' at
>> the end ;))
>> - CeeD (as in "seed")
>> - CeDe
>
> I think I'm going to stick with DStep.

I do understand where the name is coming from, but (as has been 
pointed out by others already) it offers no clue as to what it is 
doing. Looking at the name it's anybody's guess what it is. It's 
easier to remember a tool, if it has a reference to what it's all 
about, e.g. Cygwin, htod.

>> [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dimp#English
>> [2] in case it will go beyond C/Obj-C, we need no reference to 
>> C
>
> It will hopefully support C++ as well.


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