is eC alot like D?

[Jerome St-Louis via Digitalmars-d-learn]

To confirm guys eC does support C preprocessing.
The C preprocessor is invoked before the eC compiler does its 
parsing.

And all native C headers should work fine as well, although there 
might be some portability issues on more obscure platforms which 
have not yet been tested which would require attention, but as 
you can see at https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libecerecom0 it 
works fine on most popular platforms.

eC tries to be a superset of C as much possible, with only a few 
keyword clashes like 'class' as an exception.

Best regards,

-Jerome

On Thursday, 12 March 2015 at 11:02:11 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:26:13 -0700, Parke via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>
>>> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:22:32 +0000, sclytrack wrote:
>>>> - You can include C library headers directly in your .ec 
>>>> code, without
>>>> any special keyword (like extern "C" in C++)
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:59 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn
>> <digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> either i missed something, misunderstood what he means or he 
>>> is simply
>>> wrong. i remember that there is no CPP macro processor in eC, 
>>> so...
>>> oops.
>>> why my C header is not working?!
>> 
>> Maybe the eC compiler invokes a C compiler to do the 
>> preprocessing.
>
> and then we have things like `static inline` functions and many 
> other
> quirks. ah, and alot of standard C headers included, which are 
> platform-
> dependent, by the way. so the only way to make this work is to 
> have full-
> featured native C compiler inside.