Things that make writing a clean binding system more difficult

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5 August 2016 at 03:33, Seb via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 12:44:49 UTC, Manu wrote:
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>> On 29 July 2016 at 16:51, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
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>>> [...]
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>> Bingo! But it's much deeper than that. ref is a disaster. Use it to
>> any real extent; in particular, binding (or fabricating bindings) to
>> extern(C++) code, and you will see just how fast it breaks down in the
>> most horrific of ways (almost always resulting in text mixin). I would
>> fork D just to fix ref!
>
>
> I might sound stupid, but there is a better way than forking:
>
> 1) Work out a _good_ D improvement proposal and submit it for review to
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs (exact process is explained over there)
> 2) Once accepted, send a PR

Solution is trivial; ref is part of the type. Of course this will
break a ton of code, and it's strongly resisted. It'll never happen
>_<