A gentle critque..

[Chad J]

Walter Bright wrote:
> D can link against C code right now, it just will not compile C code.

Sorry I didn't mean link.  Oh and I said C plus plus a lot, but I think
the ng cut out the plus plus.  Basically I just want to be able to
import .h  files and have it just work.

If it is actually easier to convert all of the C plus plus headers to D
"headers" by hand than by creating some automated mechanism in the
compiler, then OK, no full automated conversion.  I find that hard to
believe though.

I am thinking game creation middleware for myself.  This would involve
hand translating a whole bunch of stuff, just to try it out.  I may not
even use the results for very long.  I suppose I could code in C plus
plus to try stuff out, but then I'm doing C plus plus coding and not D
coding, and that's just about as bad as the header conversion (for me
anyways).  Then if the maintainers of a C plus plus library change the
library, the D wrappers become outdated and need fixing.

I have even more trouble believing that current D compilers shouldn't
support C plus plus integration just because it might make C plus plus
compilation a required capability of a D compiler.