On 2014-04-01 07:11:51 +0000, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> said:
Of course, I use alias this all the time too for various stuff. I said before, it's a useful tool and it's great D *can* do this stuff, but I'm talking about this particular super common use case where it's used to hack together nothing more than a class without a vtable, ie, a basic ref type. I'd say that's worth serious consideration as a 1st-class concept?
You don't need it as a 1st-class D concept though. Just implement the basics of the C++ object model in D, similar to what I did for Objective-C, and let people define their own extern(C++) classes with no base class. Bonus if it's binary compatible with the equivalent C++ class. Hasn't someone done that already?
-- Michel Fortin michel.for...@michelf.ca http://michelf.ca
