Overloading/Inheritance issue

[Jeff Nowakowski]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Another problem with them is they are not part of the D compiler itself, 
> and in my experience add on tools rarely get used, no matter how useful 
> they are.

I think optimizing your language for vi and the printer is a dead-end. 
The vast majority of the time a developer is going to be working on his 
code on a computer using some tool.  If a tool lets you make use of a 
big productivity feature, then it makes sense to use it and officially 
endorse it as a basic requirement of the language.  Even vi users use 
tools like grep and ctags.

-Jeff