Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

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On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 17:57:49 UTC, data pulverizer 
wrote:
> The reason I have never really been comfortable with sub-typing 
> is that the polymorphic types are a black-box, my preference is 
> certainly for parametric type polymorphism. The main 
> disadvantage with parametric polymorphism in compiled languages 
> is that array containers only operate under subtyping 
> polymorphism. In the above Julia example the array container is 
> essentially acting exactly like a compile-time dispatch 
> (overloaded) function - the array is dispatching on a specific 
> set of types defined by the abstract parent type. That kind of 
> construct would be very desirable to me in D. The closest such 
> thing you can have to that in D are tuples.

I suspect the reason you can't have parametric typed array 
containers in statically typed compiled languages is that 
underneath, they are doubly/linked lists, and there is no way of 
resolving the types at the end of the array, and allowing 
appending at the same time ... someone correct me if I am wrong.