How does D (hold up to/compare with) Objective C?

>How does D (hold up to/compare with) Objective C?

You can't compare them.

Objective C is very different from D. There is a language called Objective C++, which is just a mix of C++ and Objective C. This is possible and usefull as Objective C's class system is so different from that of C++.

You don'thave things like the message eating nil, or any that dynamic thing in D.

"message eating nil"

that sounds like something you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.

something i wondered - is objective C a true extension to the compiler or is it just a fancy preprocessor?  i wonder because the syntax is so weird, and it would make sense if it were weird for easy preprocessing.

>"message eating nil"
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>that sounds like something you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.

Well, nil is something like null. But if you call a message on it, the result is just nil rather than an exception. So you don't need stuff like the null object pattern.

>something i wondered - is objective C a true extension to the compiler or is it just a fancy preprocessor?  i wonder because the syntax is so weird, and it would make sense if it were weird for easy preprocessing.

I'm not sure. Perhaps at first it was just a preprocessor. The first C++ compilers just compiled to C, too.