C++ interop - what to do about long and unsigned long?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Walter Bright:
> 
>> 1. elevate c_long and c_ulong into full fledged types.
> 
> This looks like the simpler and cleaner solution. What are the
> disadvantages of this solution?
> 
> (In my opinion the C++ interop topic is way less important/urgent than
> designing and implementing the tracking/scoping of memory areas in D. So
> I am seeing a priority problem here).
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

C++ interoperability: 1,000,000 merit points
Anything related to the GC: 999,999 merit points
All else: two digits merit points