Subclass Type
Mason Green
mason.green at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 09:02:59 PDT 2008
Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:
> You can't, at least not easily. It's easy in ActionScript because it's a
> dynamic, introspective language. D is statically-typed, and since you can't
> know what subclass something is until runtime, you can't know what static
> type to use for it.
Ah, excellent explanation. Thanks!
> But in general, runtime type identification is not going to get you very far
> in D. This doesn't mean you can't solve your problems, it just means you'll
> have to solve them a different way.
>
I know how to get around solving the problem, I was just hoping that there was a "quick and easy" way. In any case, I appreciate your explanation and suggestion.
Thanks,
Mason
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