[dmd-internals] Renaming Object to RootObject? Is this really necessary?

Daniel Murphy yebblies at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 17:44:05 PDT 2013


As I said in the pull request discussion, Object and RootObject do not have
the same API.  Complete automatic conversion is not possible as the glue
layer needs to reference Object/RootObject, and must stay written in C++.


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>wrote:

> https://github.com/D-**Programming-Language/dmd/pull/**2198<https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2198>
>
> This breaks a pile of pull requests. I also have a hard time seeing why it
> is necessary in the conversion of the C++ source code to D source.
>
> After all, the root Object pretty much mimics the the D Object. So just
> leave it as Object.
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