How to generate Lua boilerplate with D

[qznc]

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/into_luad.html

[jordigh]

If you haven't seen this, the D Gems section of the D Tour highlights some of D's most exciting features:

https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/uniform-function-call-sy...

In particular, here is another explanation of the scope feature presented in the LuaD article:

https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/scope-guards

[rweichler]

Is there something like

    extern "C" { void foo(); }

For D? That way you'd be able to use the LuaJIT ffi. That, in combination with what's in the OP, would be killer.

[shakna → rweichler]

Yes [0].

    extern (C++) int foo(int i, int j, int k);

In fact, D can both access C++, and C++ can access D, as you can see further down that link, on classes.

But, if you don't want C++, then [1]:

    extern (C) int foo(int i, int j, int k);

Which is actually in the article.

[0] http://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html

[1] http://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html

[edmccard → rweichler]

Yep, except you'd write it

    extern(C) { void foo(); }

https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html

[vram22 → edmccard]

Here is an example:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/09/calling-simple-c-function...