On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
> Besides std.regexp only works with (narrow) strings and we want it to work > on streams of all widths and structures. One pet complaint I have is that > std.regexp puts a class around it all as if everybody's favorite pastime > would be to inherit Regexp and override some random function in it. So what do you think it should be, a struct? That would imply to me that everybody's favorite pastime is making value copies of regex structures, when in fact nobody does that. Regex is a class in order to give it reference semantics and provide encapsulation of some re-usable state. Maybe it should be a final class, but my impression is "final class" doesn't really work in D. --bb
