Sane API design (AKA C's #ifdef hell)

[Dejan Lekic]

On Thursday, 16 April 2026 at 23:59:53 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

It becomes _much more_ complicated when you need to check for 
version, and depending on version declare functions. D does not 
offer good solution for this and that is where C preprocessor 
wins as we have to combine `version`s, enums, static ifs in order 
to achieve things that are quite simple with C preprocessor.

Those who believe D is good for this should write a binding for a 
complex library that supports all versions.