Help translating C/C++ snippet to D

nazriel nazriel6969 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 21:09:20 PDT 2012


On Tuesday, 3 July 2012 at 02:34:04 UTC, Dustin wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to follow along with a C++ tutorial and translate it 
> to D but I don't know C/C++ well enough to understand this 
> #Define statement:
>
> #define ARRAY_COUNT( array ) (sizeof( array ) / (sizeof( 
> array[0] ) * (sizeof( array ) != sizeof(void*) || sizeof( 
> array[0] ) <= sizeof(void*))))
>
> Can anyone help me understand this and translate it to a D 
> function? Thanks for your time.

http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/481e26b6

It's quite simple.
Macros in C++, should be replaced with their successor - 
templates.
In case of D, we haven't got macros per se, so we need to use 
template.

In example above I just used template'd function.


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