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<H2><a name="D_introduction">24.1 Introduction</a></H2>
<p>From the <a href="http://www.digitalmars.com/d/">D Programming Language</a> web site: <em>D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. [...] The D language is statically typed and compiles directly to machine code.</em> As such, it is not very surprising that D is able to directly <a href="http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/interfaceToC.html">interface with C libraries</a>. Why would a SWIG module for D be needed then in the first place?</p>
<p>From the <a href="https://www.digitalmars.com/d/">D Programming Language</a> web site: <em>D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. [...] The D language is statically typed and compiles directly to machine code.</em> As such, it is not very surprising that D is able to directly <a href="https://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/interfaceToC.html">interface with C libraries</a>. Why would a SWIG module for D be needed then in the first place?</p>
<p>Well, besides the obvious downside that the C header files have to be manually converted to D modules for this to work, there is one major inconvenience with this approach: D code usually is on a higher abstraction level than C, and many of the features that make D interesting are simply not available when dealing with C libraries, requiring you e.g. to manually convert strings between pointers to <tt>\0</tt>-terminated char arrays and D char arrays, making the algorithms from the D2 standard library unusable with C arrays and data structures, and so on.</p>
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<p>The first key difference is that C++ supports free functions as operators (along with argument-dependent lookup), while D requires operators to be member functions of the class they are operating on. SWIG can only automatically generate wrapping code for member function operators; if you want to use operators defined as free functions in D, you need to handle them manually.</p>
<p>Another set of differences between C++ and D concerns individual operators. For example, there are quite a few operators which are overloadable in C++, but not in D, for example <tt>&amp;&amp;</tt> and <tt>||</tt>, but also <tt>!</tt>, and prefix increment/decrement operators in <a href="http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/operatoroverloading.html">D1</a> resp. their postfix pendants in <a href="http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/operatoroverloading.html">D2</a>.</p>
<p>Another set of differences between C++ and D concerns individual operators. For example, there are quite a few operators which are overloadable in C++, but not in D, for example <tt>&amp;&amp;</tt> and <tt>||</tt>, but also <tt>!</tt>, and prefix increment/decrement operators in <a href="https://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/operatoroverloading.html">D1</a> resp. their postfix pendants in <a href="https://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/operatoroverloading.html">D2</a>.</p>
<p>There are also some cases where the operators can be translated to D, but the differences in the implementation details are big enough that a rather involved scheme would be required for automatic wrapping them, which has not been implemented yet. This affects, for example, the array subscript operator, <tt>[]</tt>, in combination with assignments - while <tt>operator []</tt> in C++ simply returns a reference which is then written to, D resorts to a separate <tt>opIndexAssign</tt> method -, or implicit casting (which was introduced in D2 via <tt>alias this</tt>). Despite the lack of automatic support, manually handling these cases should be perfectly possible.</p>