On Monday, 18 March 2013 at 01:05:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
So, once all of those functions are removed from Object,
derived types can
then define them with whatever attributes they want. The only
thing you lose is
the ability to compare Objects directly, which is not necessary
in D and is
arguably a bad idea anyway.
It's worth noting that including a standard interface (as in the
interface keyword) for stuff like Comparable, Hashable etc. is a
possibility that can be explored to enable runtime polymorphism
akin to the current Object for programs that need it. Either way,
I'm glad it's on its way out of Object.
