distinguish between classes and structures

[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Weed <resume755 at mail.ru> wrote:
> Who can provide a link to an explanation about why in D has taken to
> distinguish between classes and structures?
>
> (Sorry for my bad English)
>

The main justification is eliminating the slicing problem.
http://cplusplusgems.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-is-slicing-problem-class-base.html

D solves it by making it impossible to have a class instance as a value type.

--bb