Reddit: why aren't people using D?

Rainer Deyke rainerd at eldwood.com
Thu Jul 23 09:11:09 PDT 2009


Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The issues are discussed in the book C++ Coding Standards and also in
> More Effective C++. Part of the problem is slicing, which you may want
> to google for. MEC++ discusses the problem of defining constructors and
> particularly copy constructors in hierarchies. Assignment and comparison
> are also problematic.

Yes, C++ has problems, but these problems can be fixed!  The
struct/class split, on the other hand, introduces many more problems
that are harder to fix.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com



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