duck!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/16/2010 03:43 PM, kenji hara wrote:
> Yes, it certainly is not a lie.
> In Naming Type System, adaptTo extends duck.
>
> But, people who you want to appeal it will think that all of
> duck-typings each person imagine possible.
> As a result, by knowing duck supports only Adapter-Pattern, they will
> be lied to and angry.
> It will negatively affect D.
>
> D also has duck-typing by template, so naming adaptTo duck will be
> making ambiguous situations.
> (Like Tuple and TypeTuple)
>
> Please reconsider it.
>
> Kenji.

One way to go would be to implement the looser form of duck typing under 
the name "duck" and the current stricter variant under the name "adapt". 
(See my previous message.)


Andrei