d future or plans for d3

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 11:17:32 UTC, Froglegs wrote:
>
>> The class will still have a vptr. The vtable will contain only 
>> the type info.
>
> No way to disable type info(like in most C++ compilers you can 
> disable RTTI)? I get that GC might want it, but if I disable GC 
> why would I want type info?

It's used for casts and other language/library features depending 
on typeid.

There's also the standard Object virtual methods: toString (used 
e.g. when passing objects to writeln), toHash, opEquals, opCmp 
(used in associative arrays, array sorting).