Fully dynamic d by opDotExp overloading

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Yigal Chripun" <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:gsam1p$1ut7$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 17/04/2009 21:58, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>> btw, I'm not trying to convince you that dynamic typing is necessary 
>> always a better solution. What I'm saying is that I agree with Andrei - we 
>> need to be open minded and have as many useful tools as possible in our 
>> programmer toolbox. The important thing is to choose the right tool for 
>> the job.
>>
> 
> Typically, yes, having "as many useful tools as possible in our programmer 
> toolbox" is great. But with opDotExp, that's not the whole story. What 
> opDotExp is, is a tool of only occasional use that provides only a small 
> benefit, *and* ends up destroying a much more important tool: compile-time 
> checking on a class's members.

s/on a class's members/on the members of the class that actively chose that/

> Yea, sure I want more tools in my programmer tool box. But I don't want a 
> minor one that's going to mess up one of my major ones just by being in 
> there.


I don't think this argument holds.

Andrei