On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:06:15 -0700, Kristian <kjkilpi@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> By the way, I am a bit disappointed ;) that nobody commented the "disappearing overloads/constructors" problem I wrote earlier. Nobody said "don't worry, these issues will be fixed in future"... *grin*


That's because Walter has purposefully chosen to model D after C++ in this regard (and in many others). To him, it's a feature. Although, in the past, I know I've complained that having to alias everything forward feels hackish and annoying.

Over the last while, I've just learned to live with it. :P

-JJR

John Reimer wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:06:15 -0700, Kristian <kjkilpi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> By the way, I am a bit disappointed ;) that nobody commented the "disappearing overloads/constructors" problem I wrote earlier. Nobody said "don't worry, these issues will be fixed in future"... *grin*
> 
> 
> That's because Walter has purposefully chosen to model D after C++ in this regard (and in many others). To him, it's a feature. Although, in the past, I know I've complained that having to alias everything forward feels hackish and annoying.
> 
> Over the last while, I've just learned to live with it. :P
> 
> -JJR

True, although what Walter have said in the past, is that it is _not_ considered a problem in the C++ world.

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:40:29 -0700, Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar@igesund.net> wrote:

> John Reimer wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:06:15 -0700, Kristian <kjkilpi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> By the way, I am a bit disappointed ;) that nobody commented the
>>> "disappearing overloads/constructors" problem I wrote earlier. Nobody
>>> said "don't worry, these issues will be fixed in future"... *grin*
>>
>>
>> That's because Walter has purposefully chosen to model D after C++ in this
>> regard (and in many others). To him, it's a feature. Although, in the
>> past, I know I've complained that having to alias everything forward feels
>> hackish and annoying.
>>
>> Over the last while, I've just learned to live with it. :P
>>
>> -JJR
>
> True, although what Walter have said in the past, is that it is _not_
> considered a problem in the C++ world.
>


Yes, that appears to be true.  I'm not knowlegdable enough in that regard to know if being able to do that is a good or bad thing or whether C++ people just accept the way things work because they are used to it.  I believe Java works differently in this regard, no?

-JJR