The CAPI Manifesto

Don nospam at nospam.com
Sun Oct 23 05:20:08 PDT 2011


On 21.10.2011 13:42, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> This will defeat the philosophy of D, which stands for core
> correctness, simplicity, maintainability and flexibility.
> A much better solution would be to implement the AST macros, which
> were discussed in a video-talk a long time ago by Walter and Andrei,
> for which the macro keyword was reserved.
> After that, all C macros will be translatable.

Unfortunately, the AST macros described in the conference video don't 
work (they are *far* too weak). Nobody has ever come up with a 
replacement proposal.


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