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--- Comment #10 from Denis Shelomovskij <verylonglogin.reg@gmail.com> 2012-09-12 03:00:31 MSD ---
> D merely provides a straightforward, direct call to them.

And this is the point. We understand it in different ways.

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--- Comment #11 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> 2012-09-11 20:16:31 PDT ---
>> D merely provides a straightforward, direct call to them.

> And this is the point. We understand it in different ways.

I have no idea how you could misunderstand that. I only see one way to interpret that, which is that we simply provide C bindings and you have to deal with whatever quirks the C function has, just like you would have to in C. The bindings in druntime are provided so that Phobos can build better abstractions on them and so that D programmers have direct access to system functions where necessary.

If you want a cleaner API around a C function, then create a D wrapper. In the case of fopen, that's done with std.stdio.File. We're not trying to clean up C APIs or make them easy-to-use, just provide bindings for them.

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