Structs implementing interfaces in D1
Tom S
h3r3tic at remove.mat.uni.torun.pl
Tue Feb 10 15:40:28 PST 2009
Tim M wrote:
> Is there a reason to have structs instead of classes/objects to do
> whatever you use them for or is that besides the point?
Structs are more lightweight because they don't carry the 'monitor' and
vtable pointer. It's also easier to create them on the stack e.g. in
arrays. But my code was mostly a proof of concept implementation, since
many folks did not realize that structs might implement interfaces too.
It would also be possible to do more exotic stuff, like constructing
interface 'instances' out of free functions at runtime. My point was to
show one possible way.
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Tomasz Stachowiak
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