Private imports and Objects

[Patrick Schluter]

On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 06:44:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Object exists primarily because D didn't originally have 
> templates, and when you don't have templates, having a single 
> base class is the only way to have a function accept any class, 
> and for something like a container, you'd pretty much be forced 
> to use void* without Object if you don't have templates. 
> However, once templates were added to D, the benefits of Object 
> were significantly reduced, and it's arguably not a 
> particularly good idea to be writing code that operates on 
> Object. However, it's far too late in the game to get rid of 
> Object.

And they come in very handy when one ports code from Java. As a 
first approach a simple 1 to 1 adaptation of the code makes the 
porting so much easier. Templates and D magic can come afterwards.