Migrating dmd to D?

[Chad Joan]

On 02/27/2013 08:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/27/13 7:55 PM, timotheecour wrote:
>>> Use dtoh to initiate and conduct an incremental port of the compiler.
>>
>> How about going the other way around?
>>
>> Using swig to make existing dmd C++ code available to D, so we can
>> advance with a mix of D and C++ code until all of C++ code is converted.
>> I was able to successfully convert large code bases from C++ to D using
>> swig (eg: opencv, sfml, etc). It's the most hands-off way, with very
>> minimal interface file that can recursively make things accessible with
>> fine grained control (for opencv the interface file was < 200 loc).
>
> I think that's a fine idea but I also believe dtoh would be a mightily
> powerful program in and by itself. Once available, it would make
> migration of C++ projects to D possible and easy.
>
> Andrei

Isn't this what swig /does/ though?  What is lacking?