Overloading/Inheritance issue

[Derek Parnell]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:37:58 -0400, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> This is very counterintuitive...

> My point basically is why should a coder be forced to declare
> an alias when realistically there is no reason they would
> NOT want to declare the alias?

Oh don't get me wrong, I too think that the current rules are totally daft.
I mean, why does one go to the trouble of deriving one class from another
if its not to take advantage of members in the parent class?

I vaguely recall Walter saying that he decided to do it this way because it
is easy to implement this rule into the compiler and it makes the compiler
run faster. (I am paraphrasing from memory, so I could be totally wrong).

If this is so, then it strikes me that the language is this way in order to
make life easier for compiler writers than for D coders, which is just not
right in my POV.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
2/08/2007 2:14:09 PM