duck!

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-10-16 14:32:10 -0400, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> said:

>> Nobody is going to start using D because it has a function *named* duck.
> 
> Maybe not, but it will raise awareness that "D has duck typing". 
> Otherwise, I guarantee you that people will argue that "I need duck 
> typing, and Z has it and D does not" if it is named adaptTo.

The problem is that D doesn't have duck-typing. The adapter pattern 
isn't duck-typing. Duck-typing is when you have an object and can call 
a 'quack' function on it and if there's no 'quack' function you get a 
runtime error.

It's like saying D is a dynamic language, people will know you're 
bullshitting them.

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Michel Fortin
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