D - more power than (really) needed !

[David Medlock]

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> David Medlock wrote:
> <snip>
>> see:
>> http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Subtyping/#Problem
>>
>> -DavidM
> 
> A nice example of not understanding OOP :)
> 
> WOW .. I think I'm beginning to understand what Schock means when he 
> says everyone out there thinks they are doing object oriented 
> programming, but only very few of them really are.
> 
> There's no "book" that you can follow literally to produce good code. 
> It's a matter of trial and error. You try to subclass CSet from CBag, 
> and disvocer that it doesn't work, or produce more problem than it 
> solves, then don't whine about it, just implement CSet differently. It's 
> not OOP's fault, nor is it inheritance's fault.
> If you try to open a door with a screw-driver and it doesn't work, 
> should you blame the screw-driver, or blame yourself for not 
> understanding how doors work?

Sorry, Hasan this is called 'moving the goalposts'.

-DavidM