Adapter-Pattern! I'd have forgotten the name. It is NOT equals to duck-typing.
adaptTo supports Adapter-Pattern. Thanks Michel. Kenji Hara 2010/10/17 Michel Fortin <michel.for...@michelf.com>: > On 2010-10-16 14:32:10 -0400, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> > 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. > > -- > Michel Fortin > michel.for...@michelf.com > http://michelf.com/ > >
