On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:37:45 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> 3. Inheritance and polymorphism are widely used > > It's my impression that D uses a lot more parametric polymorphism (i.e. > templates) than virtual inheritance. this is true at least for my case. i tend to write templates that accepts entities that can do what i need instead of building class hierarchies. my data reading primitives, for example, works with any entity that has appropriate rawRead() method. the only disadvantage is a size of a compiled binary, but i can live with that. and if i want really small binary, i have to drop Phobos anyway, and in this case i'd better use open()/read()/close() directly. easy parametric polymorphism is one of those things that i absolutely love in D.
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