What are the unused but useful feature you know in D?
bauss
jj_1337 at live.dk
Sat Nov 4 17:13:37 UTC 2017
On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 13:27:29 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
> On 04/11/2017 2:14 PM, jmh530 wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Okay so:
>
> A signature when it is initiated is aware of the implementation
> it is referencing. Allowing it to change how it behaves for
> compatibility reasons.
>
> An interface is designed so that a class/interface must know of
> the interface to inherit from.
>
> While signatures can and probably will inherit from others,
> this is not how it is used unlike with interfaces. Because this
> is a massive change in how we view them and their usage,
> extending interfaces is not appropriate. Luckily an already
> existing concept exists in the literature which does solve most
> of the goals and that is signatures from the ML family.
>
> I will make a mental note to rewrite that section.
It reminds a lot of traits in Rust.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.8.0/book/traits.html
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