C++ -> D converter mentioned in AMA

[Daniel Murphy]

"Szymon Gatner" <noemail at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:jqvduhyvfufpzovpyqbj at forum.dlang.org...
> Andrei's AMA has interesting answer:
>
> "One of the main D(md) contributors, Daniel Murphy is working on automatic 
> conversion tool that eventually will convert DMD's C++ codebase to D."
>
> Is this tool already available? Are there any guidelines about how to code 
> in C++ to ease the conversion preocess (or even make it possible). I would 
> be VERY interested in such a tool when the time comes so in the mean time 
> I could slowly "fix" existing C++ codebase for future conversion.

The tool is available here: https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2

But as others have said, it is not meant to be a general purpose tool.  The 
same approach could easily be applied to another large and consistent 
project, but not without adapting the tool to your needs.

DMD uses a very nice subset of C++ (very few templates, no stl, no MI, etc) 
so most of the things I've needed to clean up were actually C-isms.

You can get a comprehensive list of changes by looking at past commits with 
[DDMD] in the title, along with the un-merged ones here: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980