WindowsAPI - Problem with DECLARE_HANDLE definition

Simen Kjaeraas simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Wed Sep 11 13:19:44 PDT 2013


On 2013-09-11, 20:29, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

> On 9/11/13, Kagamin <spam at here.lot> wrote:
>> I'd say, strong handles shouldn't act as pointers (and shouldn't
>> contain pointers), so null shouldn't work.
>
> "NULL" is already used in a ton of WinAPI C/C++ code and MSDN
> documentation, it would be a major pain in the ass to have to use e.g.
> HWND(0) instead.

How's about

   enum NULL = HANDLE(0);

Honestly I hate that, and am convinced the correct way to fix this is
for D to add opImplicitCastFrom.

-- 
   Simen


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