Why Strings as Classes?

[BCS]

Reply to Nick,

> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message
> news:g8vmda$sd4$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> BCS:
>> 
>>> If you must have that sort of interface, pick a different language,
>>> because D isn't intended to work that way.
>>> 
>> I suggest Benji to try C# 3+, despite all the problems it has and the
>> borg-like nature of such software, etc, it will be used way more than
>> D, and it has all the nice things Benji asks for.
>> 
> (pet peeve) As much as there is that I like about C#, the lack of an
> IArithmetic or operator constrains tends to gimp its template system
> in a number of cases.
> 

C# generics are *Crippled*. They more or less do nothing but map types around.