ADL

Manu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Sep 2 21:14:36 PDT 2016


On 3 September 2016 at 11:25, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/2016 6:12 PM, Stefan Koch wrote:
>>
>> If this feature were supported, it would probably break our module system.
>> Even if we could shoehorn it into the language it would make the compiler
>> slower.
>
>
> Note that C++ needs ADL in part because it cannot do options 2, 3 or 4.

They're not solutions though, they're workarounds. They're all
problematic, and highly unsavoury.
Nobody is gonna go "oh, i really wish i could do those things in
C++!", because the problem is already solved :/


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