Deimos rules?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, November 14, 2013 15:06:59 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 14/11/13 13:13, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > I would say stay as close to the original C code as possible. Although I
> > do
> > prefer to translate typedefs like int8_t to real D types, like byte, if
> > they exist.
> In some ways I wonder why D's types aren't just specified according to the
> number of bits -- int8, int16, int32, int64 instead of byte, short, int,
> long. I suppose on balance it's probably less readable and easier to make
> mistakes writing.

It's a stylistic choice, and Walter went with not putting the sizes in the 
type names. But since their sizes are still fixed, it doesn't really matter.

> More generally -- is it considered desirable to provide not only the C-like
> translation, but also a higher-level "D-ified" wrapper? Or is that
> considered overkill for Deimos?

Deimos is specifically for bindings to C libraries and _not_ for D-ified 
wrappers. And that's the stance that Walter has taken when it's come up. But 
with dub and code.dlang.org, it should be simple enough to put a D-ified 
wrapper in a place where folks can find it.

- Jonathan M Davis