All right, all right! Interim decision regarding qualified Object methods

[Michel Fortin]

On 2012-07-12 15:48:13 +0000, "Steven Schveighoffer" 
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> said:

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:30:35 -0400, Michel Fortin  
> <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
> 
>> D/Objective-C (the compiler addition) is much more than that. It's  
>> support and cohabitation of a second object ABI, it's support for  
>> Objective-C exceptions mixed with D exceptions, support for Objective-C 
>>  string and selector literals, class objects and overridable class  
>> methods, overriding, contracts added to the Objective-C object model,  
>> Objective-C protocols (through interfaces), plus a few other things  
>> which haven't been implemented at this time.
> 
> Out of curiosity, do you see this becoming a possible improvement on D 
> in  the next year?
> 
> I have recently been doing iOS and Mac development with objective-c, 
> and I  am quite impressed with how well it works, and how easy it is to 
> use,  especially with xcode.
> 
> It would be nice to mix in a bit of D, using obj-c containers is a pain.
> 
> I remember the tail-const object reference was a blocker, no?  is there 
>  anything else?

Tail const is a orthogonal issue.

I just don't have time to work on this right now -- I'm too busy 
working on other thing -- even though I'd like very much to work on 
that.

-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
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