Gah, I need to proof-read my code before posting. Here's the corrected version:

 	class Simpson {
 		string name;
 	}
 	class Bart : Simpson {
 		this() {
 			name = "Bart Simpson";
 		}
 	}
 	class Homer : Simpson {
 		this() {
 			name = "Homer Simpson";
 		}
 	}

 	void main() {
 		Simpson[] simpsons = [
			new Bart,
			new Homer
		];

 		foreach (simpson; simpsons) {
 			writeln(simpson.name);
 		}
 	}


--T

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My program has no bugs! Only undocumented features...

On 5/16/12 9:24 AM, Stephen Jones wrote:
> Ary: I seem to remember playing around with a Simpsons extending program
> in Java that did this; you could throw all the different Simpsons into a
> single Array because they extended "Simpson", and you could walk through
> the array and each would call their own name. I kind of purposely left
> the language vague in case I was mistaken.

But in Java you'd also need to cast the Simpson to a specific class if it contains the fields you are interested it.