A safer interface for core.stdc

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Feb 9 09:45:09 PST 2015


On 2/9/15 1:39 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>
> I think this is crucial if we want to keep actual Phobos sources easily
> review-able within your requirements. There is a good value in having
> `core.stdc` to map C headers 1-to-1 though.
>
> Would you consider separate `core.safestdc` package tree where such
> wrappers could be put on per need basis (duplicating tree structure of
> core.stdc modules internally)

Walter opposes this on grounds of increased maintenance burdens. He 
points out (rightly imho) that we better focus on the higher-level 
primitives present in Phobos. -- Andrei


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