• Tony (14/14) May 05 2005 Hi all,
• pragma (26/36) May 05 2005 The quick-and-dirty rundown is that it follows very closely to C++:

"Tony" <talk#to#tony# #email.com> writes:

Hi all,

I would like to know what the recommended (and possible) methods are for
structuring a D application.

By this I mean: what are the techniques/paradigms available in the language?

For instance, I consider Lisp to have the following:

structured programming
object-oriened programming
functional programming
aspect-oriented programming (via auxiliary methods)
domain specific language development (via macros)

Thanks for any advice.

Tony
]Melbourne, Australia
talk#to#tony#at#email.com

pragma <pragma_member pathlink.com> writes:

In article <d5cn87$p0q$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Tony says...
Hi all,

I would like to know what the recommended (and possible) methods are for
structuring a D application.

By this I mean: what are the techniques/paradigms available in the language?

For instance, I consider Lisp to have the following:

structured programming
object-oriened programming
functional programming
aspect-oriented programming (via auxiliary methods)
domain specific language development (via macros)

The quick-and-dirty rundown is that it follows very closely to C++:

Structured programming
Object-oriented programming
Functional (free-function) programming
Template (meta) programming

D doesn't foist any particular paradigm on the programmer.  They're all
available so you can use the tool that fits best.

D also brings to the table some things that are not explicitly enshrined in
other languages (at least, not all at once):

Template mixins
RAII-style objects ('auto' keyword)
Contract-oriented programming ('in', 'out', 'body' and 'invariant')
Unitesting ('unittest' keyword)
Built-in Delegate and Function pointer types ('delegate' and 'function').
Partial-array types

The last one is a real nifty feature: any array type can be extended one
method-at-time via free functions, where the first argument is the type to be
extended:

char[][] stringList;
char[] getFirst(char[][] list){ return list[0]; }

stringList.getFirst(); // first argument is substituted with 'stringList'



Also on the menu are the fact that D is directly compiled to native machinecode
(no VM), and sports a non-ref-counting GC.

- EricAnderton at yahoo