DIP 84: Static Inheritance

Zardoz via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Feb 27 14:32:35 PST 2016


On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 14:39:47 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> From the discussion here: 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/tgnxocozkurfvmxqofnn@forum.dlang.org, I thought a library solution would do to fix the issue of getting decent error messages when a type fails to satisfy a template constraint that it was meant to, such as `isInputRange`. So I submitted a PR (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3677), it's been there ever since and doesn't seem like it'll go anywhere from the discussion (http://forum.dlang.org/post/qvofihzmappftdiwdaue@forum.dlang.org).
>
> So the only other way is a DIP (http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP84) 
> for language and compiler support for static inheritance. It's 
> backwards-compatible and IMHO worth looking at.
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> Atila

+1 !!!


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