What would break if class was merged with struct
Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 27 09:37:04 PDT 2017
On Saturday, 27 May 2017 at 16:31:32 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> There's a lot more difference in D. Classes in D are fat memory
> chunks storing pointers to ClassInfo (inc. vtable),
So are classes with virtual functions in C++, to get RTTI you
need to have a virtual member function. I don't see the big
difference.
> Monitor (i.e. for "synchronized") and
Wasn't this going to be removed?
> a list of all interfaces they implement,
Semantically roughly the same as multiple-inheritance in C++ but
more limited.
> If we were to remove all that, we'd lose the semi-natural way
> of interfacing to C++ classes, and some pretty horrendous code
> involving void* and void** would have to be used.
I don't understand what you mean here.
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