bearophile Wrote: > Regarding the recent small thread about the "new" statement, > this is how the Dylan language faces the problem (found through > Lambda The Ultimate):
> http://www.opendylan.org/books/drm/Constructing_and_Initializing_Instances#make How would you make this work without open multimethods[1] and dynamically typed varargs? I think Dylan is a great language, but a lot of its features would be a poor fit for D for much the same reason that a lot of features from Python would be a poor fit for D. Even features that could work extremely well in the context of D---like multimethods---would be a huge addition. Cheers, Pillsy [1] The "open multimethods" described in http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/multimethods.pdf are very similar to Dylan's "generic functions". They don't have a lot to do with "generics" or "generic programming".
