luajit-ffi

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On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 15:56:32 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
wrote:

> What are you talking about? The link you posted clearly shows 
> that LuaJIT has a C parser built in. It has everything to do 
> with syntax (note that FFI is not anything spectacular or 
> innovative; see libffi, Mono, Lisp, ...). And no, D does not 
> "have all the structures". If it did, we wouldn't be redefining 
> them in D bindings.

What am "i" talking about? How hard to understand these two 
things?
ABI compatibility and "already" being able to call C natively? If 
you need any syntax you "already" have it.

> What does enum have to do with the C preprocessor? Anyway, it's 
> not that simple. Any arbitrary symbol can have multiple 
> definitions depending on what path you take in the preprocessor 
> forest.

Have you ever used a C api, say OpenGL?
What are they using preprocessor for? other than enum and alias?
It is that damn simple. I am not talking about supporting Boost 
level preprocessor exploit. I am talking about mature "C" 
libraries.