D as A Better C?

[Adam Wilson]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:40:08 -0800, Daniel Murphy  
<yebbliesnospam at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Adam Wilson"  wrote in message  
> news:op.xa44tcvr707hn8 at invictus.hra.local...
>
>> IIRC every class, if it inherits from nothing else, inherits from  
>> Object. The compiler expects Object on all classes. Beyond that I can't  
>> speak to how dependent the compiler is on the inheritance to make  
>> classes work.
>
> extern(C++) classes do not depend on object/Object or anything else.

Awesome, I didn't know that. Does that mean we could add a switch for  
default linkage? That's good to know for reasons related to a couple of my  
D projects.

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Adam Wilson
GitHub/IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator