duck!

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:i9ae2n$k9g$1 at digitalmars.com...
>I was talking to Walter about Kenji's adaptTo. We both think it's a very 
>powerful enabler, but adaptTo is a bland name. After discussing a few 
>marketing strategies, I proposed "duck". It's short, simple, and evokes 
>"duck typing".
>
> class C
> {
>     int draw(){ return 10; }
> }
> interface Drawable
> {
>     long draw();
> }
> ...
> auto c = new C;
> auto d = duck!Drawable(c); // awes
>
> Kenji, I'll be looking forward to your submission :o). Would be great to 
> allow structs to duck, too!
>

Now that's one breed of duck I *can* get behind. Provides the duck benefits, 
but without accidentally conflating naming with semantics everywhere like 
the Ruby/Python ducks or even like Go's "spaghetti door" ducks ( 
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dr6r4/talk_by_rob_pike_the_expressiveness_of_go_pdf/c12bi4h ) 
. Cool stuff.