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It is kind of curious why interface typed identifiers don't implicitly cast to Object, and you must explicitly cast.<BR>
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But regardless of the reason, adopting a convention (and a bad one at that) such as prefixing interfaces with "I" probably shouldn't be done at the language level. And even more, D already has avoided creating any kind of special types (you can throw Object, for instance, and it's not a derivative of <I>Exception</I>) so far as I can tell...why start now?<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Scott S. McCoy<BR>
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On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 23:25 +0200, Frank Benoit wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">COM is the only reason I am aware of, why interfaces are not implicit </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">compatible to to object.Object. But COM is a very special case which </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">probably can get a special solution?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">How about making /IUnknown/ a special interface without this </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">compatibility and have all interfaces, not derived from IUnknown be </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">compatible to Object?</FONT>
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