• DLearner (4/4) Mar 19 2021 Could it be made acceptable, at least for -betterC option, to use
• Imperatorn (2/6) Mar 19 2021 You could try search and replace '->' with '.' see how it goes
• Cym13 (5/9) Mar 19 2021 In D '.' can be used to access the member of a struct regardless
• novice3 (4/9) Mar 19 2021 i guess, idea was to reduce manual work then adapt C sources to D.
• ryuukk_ (7/17) Mar 19 2021 Nobody needs to manually write bindings nowadays

DLearner <bmqazwsx123 gmail.com> writes:

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

Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 19 March 2021 at 11:23:36 UTC, DLearner wrote:
 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

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

Cym13 <cpicard purrfect.fr> writes:

On Friday, 19 March 2021 at 11:23:36 UTC, DLearner wrote:
 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

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.

novice3 <sorryno em.ail> writes:

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.

ryuukk_ <ryuukk_ gmail.com> writes:

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.

 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