• bearophile (4/4) Sep 05 2010 Regarding the recent small thread about the "new" statement, this is how...
• Pillsy (8/12) Sep 08 2010 How would you make this work without open multimethods[1] and dynamicall...

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Regarding the recent small thread about the "new" statement, this is how the
Dylan language faces the problem (found through Lambda The Ultimate):
http://www.opendylan.org/books/drm/Constructing_and_Initializing_Instances#make

Bye,
bearophile

Pillsy <pillsbury gmail.com> writes:

bearophile Wrote:

 Regarding the recent small thread about the "new" statement, 
 this is how the Dylan language faces the problem (found through 
 Lambda The Ultimate):

 http://www.opendylan.org/books/drm/Constructing_and_Initializing_Instances#make

How would you make this work without open multimethods[1] and dynamically typed
varargs?

I think Dylan is a great language, but a lot of its features would be a poor
fit for D for much the same reason that a lot of features from Python would be
a poor fit for D. Even features that could work extremely well in the context
of D---like multimethods---would be a huge addition.

Cheers,
Pillsy

[1] The "open multimethods" described in 
    http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/multimethods.pdf
are very similar to Dylan's "generic functions". They don't have a lot to do
with "generics" or "generic programming".