Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Jason House wrote:
> 
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd be curious to find out more about a runtime queryable struct 
>>> interface. How would it work? What idioms would it enable?
>> I don't know what Lars is thinking of, but I think of struct
>> interfaces as a non-polymorphic / compile-time inheritance.  AKA,
>> you can have a struct implement it, but you can't cast it to a base
>> struct/interface.  Outside of defining the struct, I'd expect it to
>> only be usable in templates and is-expressions
> 
> Nope, I want something that works at runtime. Inheritance
> could/should be non-polymorphic and compile-time, but I want to know
> at runtime that a void* has implemented a given interface.

Consider you can avail yourself of a function:

bool implements(Interface)(void* p);

What would you do with it?


Andrei