Overloading/Inheritance issue

[Ary Manzana]

Walter Bright escribió:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> 4) Having overloads spread across the inheritance hierarchy makes the 
>>> source code resistant to visual audits. For any method call, you'll 
>>> have to look at EVERY base class to see if it has an overload that is 
>>> a better match.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure if you've seen my other reply to this argument, but let 
>> be more explicit, with pictures. Let's say you have such a big 
>> inheritance hierarchy, with overloads spread across it.
> 
> I appreciate that you can write tools to analyze it. I think they help a 
> lot in writing the code, but I don't think they are as helpful for 
> auditing (code review).
> 
> 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 it's the opposite. In every workplace I've been, people can't 
live with a decent IDE.