On 2010-10-16 14:32:10 -0400, Walter Bright <[email protected]> said:
Nobody is going to start using D because it has a function *named* duck.
Maybe not, but it will raise awareness that "D has duck typing".
Otherwise, I guarantee you that people will argue that "I need duck
typing, and Z has it and D does not" if it is named adaptTo.
The problem is that D doesn't have duck-typing. The adapter pattern
isn't duck-typing. Duck-typing is when you have an object and can call
a 'quack' function on it and if there's no 'quack' function you get a
runtime error.
It's like saying D is a dynamic language, people will know you're
bullshitting them.
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Michel Fortin
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