On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 12:29:02 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 11:47:46 UTC, bearophile wrote:
JS:
the fact remains that I can't do it in Dlang.
Is tagging the inner class as static helping?
class A {
static class B { ... }
}
Bye,
bearophile
Just to be clear, marking the inner class as static means that
B will not have a pointer to A. It is the same as defining B
outside A, the difference being that B is not visible to
anything outside the module.
Then that doesn't help. Do you mean A.B is not visible outside
the module either? Can B be instantiated and inherited when
static, if not then it is no use.
To be. clear I want B to behave like any ordinary "root"
class(just like A), except I want to have to access it through
A(logically). This creates a hierarchical way of accessing types
that makes it clear how they are related to other types, but
doesn't prevent them from being used in a non-hierarchical way if
necessary(The way D deals with nested classes prevents this).
