ICU4D

Hi,
 
I just joined this group. I want to port ICU to D. D is a programming
language which supports a garbage collector, like Java, but which generates
executables, like C++. Information about D can be found at
http://www.digitalmars.com/d <http://www.digitalmars.com/d> . I post in the
D forum under the alias "Arcane Jill".
 
We've been talking about internationalization for a while in the D
community. I wrote a library for D which accesses Unicode character
properties, and was about to move on to the more complex algorithms, when I
discovered ICU. D is link-compatible with C, so we /could/ plug into ICU's C
API with not too much hassle, but D is object oriented, has a class
heirarchy, a garbage collector, and so on, and it would be dumb to throw all
that away just to use a C API. A better tactic would be to port ICU to D. (D
is probably closer to Java than to C++, because classes are passed by
reference, and because the presence of the garbage collector means that D
programmers are unaccustomed to having to type "delete".)
 
What's the best way of going about this?
Jill
 


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