Interface question
Charles D Hixson
charleshixsn at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 30 11:04:39 PDT 2006
xs0 wrote:
>
>> I guess what I'm going to need to do is derive everything from a
>> common ancestral class...and that means that the derived classes CAN'T
>> descend from anything else, *sigh*. The common ancestor will need to
>> be a totally abstract class, so I thought an interface would be a
>> better choice, but it looks like there's no way to make it
>> work...because they've all got to implement a common constructor type,
>> and the compiler has to KNOW that they do so.
>
> Hmm.. why exactly do you need a common constructor type? When you create
> an object, you must know its exact type (and constructors) anyway, so
> how does it matter?
>
>
> xs0
I think maybe you're right. If so, then I probably can't do
what I want to do in D. I'd been thinking that if I just
worked ahead I'd be able to solve the problem of "somehow"
using the thing that I'd created, if I could only create it.
And I could refer to it from the ancestral reference. But I
hadn't been able to figure out the details, so I was just
trying to work my way forwards. But maybe I can't do it at all.
(Well, this isn't literally true, of course. I could always
define everything in terms of a Vector of bytes. But in so
doing I give up most of what makes Computer Languages
different from assembler.)
I guess that means that it's back to Python. At least I can
drop into Pyrex when I hit places that are performance
bottlenecks. Or even into C. (I may truly dislike C with
it's wild use of pointers, but it *is* possible. And it's
about the same speed as D. [I don't really believe that
shootout that says that D is faster. How *can* it be?])
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