Re: [O] Babel support for the D language

[Eric Schulte]

Thierry Banel <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> I think this incorporation into ob-C.el would be the next logical step.
>> You'd want to use the `org-babel-c-variant' in the same manner as C++
>> does currently.  But there's no rush, and any changes there couldn't be
>> merged until after your FSF copyright assignment forms have been
>> completed.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>
> Hi Eric
>
> Done. The merging of ob-C.el and ob-D.el is done.
> It is at the end of this file:
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-D.html
> Actually, you are right, it makes sense to share common processing in a
> single *.el.
>
> I fixed what seems to be a bug.
> Tables were translated in C & C++ as something like:
>   char MyTable[7][2][11] = { ... };
> I changed that to:
>   const char* MyTable[7][2] = { ... };
> Because the former assumed that all content in the Org table were strings
> 11-1 characters long.
> Other than that, the behavior of C & C++ remains the same,
> and the code is very close to the original ob-C.el
>
> Also, in the future we may lift the constraint that tables have to be
> homogeneous
> (all ints, or all doubles, or all strings).
> But that's another story.
>
> 12 days have passed since I paper-mailed my copyright assignment to
> the FSF.  No news.  In the meantime, if you want to use my work, do
> so: it is copyrighted with the GPL 3 or later.
>

Yes, the FSF is occasionally very slow.

Perhaps someone with FSF connections can speed things up.  When you do
get the assignment back please let me know and send a patch of your
changes against the Org-mode repository (either to me directly or on
list, formatted with "git format-patch") and I'll apply it.

Thanks!

>
> Regards,
> Thierry
>
>
>

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