Why is separating class ind struct is bad?
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Sat Mar 26 01:53:00 PDT 2016
On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 08:31:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
> And while scoped may make sense in rare cases, pretty much by
> definition, if you're putting an object on the heap,
> polymorphism is not involved, and therefore it's completely
> unnecessary to use a class.
That I disagree with too. Putting class on stack simply means
that current scope will outlive the usage of class instance - it
has nothing to do with polymorphism. It is one of many memory
optimizations.
To explain a bit more, what I would consider convenient is to
limit struct/class distinction to polymorphism exclusively, with
not extra implications. So that you can still can do `MyClass
on_stack;` (any `MyClass` is treated as type of object) but
passing it to function wouldn't compile unless `ref` is also used.
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