D as an extension language

[Walter Bright]

Don Clugston wrote:
> I'm doing a lot of Windows stuff in C++, calling DLLs written in D. It's 
> not hard. You just need to use extern(C) wrappers on the D functions, 
> catch all the D exceptions before returning to C++, and make sure C++ 
> doesn't hang onto any D pointers that could be gc-ed.
> Otherwise, it's exactly the same as calling a C DLL.
> 
> I have some C++ code to simplify dynamic loading of D DLLs in Windows, 
> if you're interested (it does the name mangling for you). Useless for 
> Linux, of course.

If you could write up a brief page/article/tutorial on that, I think 
that would be helpful to a lot of people.