Problem using Interfce

[Stephen Jones]

On Monday, 14 May 2012 at 20:27:37 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 05/14/2012 11:49 AM, Stephen Jones wrote:
>
> > My
> > understanding is that c# getter setters were simply syntactic
> sugar
> > which under the hood called standard functions incurring the
> standard
> > function overhead. Is this the same with D, or does D
> implement
> > properties using pointers to the required data fields?
>
> It is the same with D but the compiler can optimize out the 
> function call in cases where that is possible.
>
> Ali

Thanks Ali for the syntax, some very useful bits and pieces I did 
not know. I do not want to use property syntax. Form a 
performance perspective I cannot see any good reason not to 
simply use an array of pointers to the different objects 
(buttons, cursor, etc) rather than incurring function overheads. 
Except for the good reason that I do not know the syntax.

Ary: I seem to remember playing around with a Simpsons extending 
program in Java that did this; you could throw all the different 
Simpsons into a single Array because they extended "Simpson", and 
you could walk through the array and each would call their own 
name. I kind of purposely left the language vague in case I was 
mistaken.