Could it be made acceptable, at least for -betterC option, to use '->' as an alternative to '.'?

'ptrStructVar->MemOfStructVar' is a very common idiom in C.

Best regards

On Friday, 19 March 2021 at 11:23:36 UTC, DLearner wrote:
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> Could it be made acceptable, at least for -betterC option, to use '->' as an alternative to '.'?
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> 'ptrStructVar->MemOfStructVar' is a very common idiom in C.
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> Best regards

You could try search and replace '->' with '.' see how it goes

On Friday, 19 March 2021 at 11:23:36 UTC, DLearner wrote:
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> Could it be made acceptable, at least for -betterC option, to use '->' as an alternative to '.'?
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> 'ptrStructVar->MemOfStructVar' is a very common idiom in C.
>
> Best regards

In D '.' can be used to access the member of a struct regardless of whether you are manipulating the struct itself or a pointer to that struct. So you can just write 'ptrStructVar.MemOfStructVar' and it will work without any issue.

On Friday, 19 March 2021 at 12:19:47 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
> In D '.' can be used to access the member of a struct regardless of whether you are manipulating the struct itself or a pointer to that struct. So you can just write 'ptrStructVar.MemOfStructVar' and it will work without any issue.

i guess, idea was to reduce manual work then adapt C sources to D.
i have similar wishes for "typedef ...".
it is boring to rewrite it then making C binding.

On Friday, 19 March 2021 at 13:15:16 UTC, novice3 wrote:
> On Friday, 19 March 2021 at 12:19:47 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
>> In D '.' can be used to access the member of a struct regardless of whether you are manipulating the struct itself or a pointer to that struct. So you can just write 'ptrStructVar.MemOfStructVar' and it will work without any issue.
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> i guess, idea was to reduce manual work then adapt C sources to D.
> i have similar wishes for "typedef ...".
> it is boring to rewrite it then making C binding.

Nobody needs to manually write bindings nowadays

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

I use it to generate the bindings of the C headers libs i need

Works most of the time, sometimes i have to do some cleanup, but it's faster than doing all the thing manually

Alternatively one can use dpp https://github.com/atilaneves/dpp