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D Cookbook

D Cookbook

By : Adam Ruppe
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D Cookbook

D Cookbook

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By: Adam Ruppe

Overview of this book

A recipe-packed reference guide filled with practical tasks that are concisely explained to develop and broaden the user's abilities with the D programming language. If you are an experienced programmer who is looking to explore a language that offers plenty of advantages over more established programming languages, this is the book for you. We assume that you are already familiar with general programming language basics, but you do not need to be a proficient user of D.
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D Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Index

Communicating with a dynamic scripting language


D's features also lead to easy integration with dynamic languages. It can host a dynamic type as well as dynamic objects.

Getting ready

To begin, download bindings to a scripting language. Here, we'll use the one I wrote whose syntax is inspired by both D and JavaScript. It was written with the goal to blur the line between the D code and the script code—the scripting language's dynamic type can also be used in D itself. Download jsvar.d and script.d from the following website:

Build your program with all three files on the command line, as follows:

dmd yourfile.d jsvar.d script.d

How to do it…

Let's execute the following steps to communicate with JavaScript:

  1. Create an object to wrap the script engine with a friendlier API.

  2. Prepare the script engine by passing data and function references to it. It may be necessary to wrap D functions in transforming functions to match the script engine's layout.

  3. Use opDispatch and...

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