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reply Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:
So i've spent the last few days making more D feeling bindings 
for vulkan, based off Satoshi's because going strait  from the 
spec was a PITA and very inconsistent, and they're almost done.

I would like to request some feedback on the code itself as well 
as the generated code and general feel of the interface for a an 
article/blog post on meta-programming and text processing in D. 
(I know I should replace most of those c-style for loops with 
join(er),but some of the ones dealing with arrays are quite 
complicated, and I really ought to factor out a lot of code). 
Also I just realised that all the extension functions will have 
to be called through obtained function pointers.

I think i've covered most of the functions but if there are any 
that I have missed please tell me.

Many thanks to Adam and others for answering my questions so one 
more. Is it possible to get Fields/Parameters to return aliased 
types? Because currently all the flags are uints not e.g. 
ImageCreateFlags.(This would enable the removal of a very large 
amount of hackery)

Code: http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/3146cdf9d382
outputted code http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/811796605755
Satoshi's bindings: 
https://github.com/Rikarin/VulkanizeD/blob/master/Vulkan.d

Nic
Mar 01 2016
parent karabuta <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 11:33:26 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:

 So i've spent the last few days making more D feeling bindings 
 for vulkan, based off Satoshi's because going strait  from the 
 spec was a PITA and very inconsistent, and they're almost done.

 I would like to request some feedback on the code itself as 
 well as the generated code and general feel of the interface 
 for a an article/blog post on meta-programming and text 
 processing in D. (I know I should replace most of those c-style 
 for loops with join(er),but some of the ones dealing with 
 arrays are quite complicated, and I really ought to factor out 
 a lot of code). Also I just realised that all the extension 
 functions will have to be called through obtained function 
 pointers.


Just one non-technical thing, the module naming does not follow 
the D style. This is common is some few projects and makes things 
inconsistent :)

*** Modules
     Module and package names should be all lowercase, and only 
contain the characters [a..z][0..9][_]. This avoids problems when 
dealing with case-insensitive file systems. ***



 Code: http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/3146cdf9d382
 outputted code http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/811796605755
 Satoshi's bindings: 
 https://github.com/Rikarin/VulkanizeD/blob/master/Vulkan.d

 Nic
Mar 01 2016