First Steps: Dynamic class instantiation

[Thomas]

Hi

I'm just making my first steps to understand D, and sometimes I'm a little bit offroad as I do not know C/C++, just PHP, Javascript etc.

I would like to write a small shell application with a small bundle of functionalities. As a first step, the user must choose which function to use (I already got that part). Than she must enter some information for the function to work on.

I thought of doing this by creating classes for each functionality implementing the same interface and creating an array in main() that somehow refers to these classes. There the trouble starts.

I don't know how to create such an array, and of which type it has to be. To be more specific, I provide you with a PHP example of what I want to do:

$selected = 1;
$classes = array('class1','class2');
$className = $classes[$selected];
$object = new $className;

Thanks for any help.

Thomas