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[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/17/14, 10:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/14/2014 2:17 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 5/14/14, 6:33 AM, Yuriy wrote:
>>> 4. I consider D a killemall language, that may be potentially used on
>>> tiny AVRs and PICs, where polymorphism might be welcome, but an extra
>>> pointer for each class instance may become a blocker. I know, thats
>>> fantasy now, but i think it's crucial to keep this concept of D.
>>
>> Agreed at least with the "killing the mall" part :o).
>
> While I agree with Andrei's agreements (!), the rationale for the
> current approach is to make it relatively straightforward to translate
> existing Java code into D. There was a fair amount of this in the early
> days of D, I'm not sure how much of that lately.

Maybe I misunderstood - I thought the change preserves semantics. -- Andrei