C++ to D

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Jeff Jones"  wrote in message news:bdfjhhkmmwzhdmqtvbzx at forum.dlang.org...

> Is it possible to modify either a C++ compiler or in code to make classes 
> more D ish? e.g., instead of just the vtable(which, IIRC is slightly 
> different between the two) add the metadata pointer and whatever else?
>
> What I'm getting at, is there a somewhat simple way(not creating a new C++ 
> but either through macros, small compiler changes, or whatever) to make 
> C++ objects D compatible instead of the other way?

It sounds like what you're suggesting is similar to the way COM interfaces 
can be implemented in C - manually matching everything that C doesn't have, 
like vtables.  You could do it with C++ for D, or patch a C++ compiler to do 
it automatically, but I'd guess there's an easier way for whatever you're 
trying to accomplish.