On the richness of C++

Jason House jason.james.house at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 12:53:23 PDT 2008


Sean Kelly Wrote:

> == Quote from Georg Wrede (georg at nospam.org)'s article
> > Is it just paranoia, or is C++ still more flexible and expressive than D?
> > Are there still things you can do in C++ that are impossible or too
> > awkward to do in D?
> 
> I think one could argue that the current implementation of mixins is a
> weak replacement for multiple inheritance, and that this makes certain
> design patterns a bit less pleasant in D than they would be in C++.  Also,
> the lack of ADL in D can be frustrating at times, though D 2.0's overload
> groups may address this issue.  In fact, it's overload groups and struct
> ctors that has me wanting to move to D 2.0.

What's ADL?  A quick web search didn't turn up any obvious definitions...



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