typeid() broken for interfaces?
deadalnix
deadalnix at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 00:50:36 PST 2012
On Tuesday, 4 December 2012 at 08:22:36 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Monday, 3 December 2012 at 15:52:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
> wrote:
>> On 2012-12-03 16:51, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>
>>> Because Object is the root of the class hierarchy. That's how
>>> it works
>>> in Java, for example. It's just because of these COM
>>> interfaces, that
>>> are not D interfaces, that we have this behavior.
>>
>> Note, I'm not saying that an interface should be implicitly
>> converted to any class, only to Object.
>
> And what happens if nobody implements an interface?
>
The same as abstract classes : you can get the typeid by looking
at it throw child's typeid or typeid(type).
typeid(expression) will never return them because they can't be
instantiated.
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