partial class

[KennyTM~]

Mike James wrote:
> Not sure if this has been suggested before as an addition to D but what about introducing a partial class as per C# - with all the benefits it would bring...
> 
> -=mike=-

I like uniform function calling syntax (a.method(x) <=> method(a, x)) 
more, which addresses some syntactical benefits of partial class. But 
you can't have virtual inheritance, extra members, and only a few 
operators can be overloaded*.

IIRC this suggestion has been raised quite a number of times but are 
rejected. I believe it is the difficulty to link classes across 
libraries. Note that C# have richer RTTI ability than D because C# is 
only compiled to a higher level byte code.

(*: Only opStar (opDeref) can be overloaded for an array as far as I've 
tested.)