D language as script through JVM

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 09:23:18 UTC, Thiez wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 00:48:44 UTC, Alexey Egorov 
> wrote:
>> I think there is no problems to make, for example, compiler 
>> for Java Virtual Machine.
>
> Think again. Like Java, the JVM does not have pointer 
> arithmetic, which means there is no straightforward way to 
> write a D-to-JVM-bytecode compiler.
>

Actually you can do it, if you make use of sun.misc.Unsafe 
package.

http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/sun/misc/Unsafe.html

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Paulo