static interface

[grauzone]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> grauzone wrote:
>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>> Why not? ;)
>>
>> The actual question is if Andrei/Walter are interested at all in this. 
>> Because they didn't show any interest so far. D will probably be 
>> doomed to compile time bug-typing I mean duck-typing forever.
> 
> There's an embarrassment of riches when it comes to finding stuff to 
> work on for D2. I think we need to resign ourselves to the idea that we 
> need to focus only on one subset of the stream of good ideas that are 
> being proposed.

That's understandable of course.

> FWIW I was keen on structs interacting in interesting ways with 
> interfaces (and submitted a number of enhancements in that directions) 
> but then realized there are a number of problems that structs/interfaces 
> cannot solve. I believe that a better path to pursue in checking 
> interface conformance is via reflection.

That's a possible solution (and an easy way out to get rid of language 
design problems), but I'm sure it's not the best solution. (It also 
should be a little bit extended to give the user better error messages.) 
I hope cleaner solutions will be considered later, possibly after D2 is 
done.

Which are the problems you mentioned?

> 
> Andrei