DMD 0.177 release

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Tue Dec 12 00:40:57 PST 2006


Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> Classes are different from structs in two essential ways:
> 
> 1. Polymorphism
> 2. Referential semantics
> 
> The two are actually interdependent, as you can't have polymorphism
> comfortably unless you have reference semantics.

That's one of the things I felt in my bones, but was unable to put my 
finger on it.



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