On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 10:00:33 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
The languages conflates reference and instance type for classes. See here http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/a55ad2b6 . I wouldn't say this should change but it is a minor inconsistency I just stumbled on.
This is not an inconsistency, but by design. Classes intrinsically are reference types, there isn't something like an »instance type« for them, which helps avoiding things like the slicing problem in C++. Yes, in D, types are always only either value types (structs) or polymorphic reference types (classes), but I fail to see anything inconsistent here.
David
