I am very interested in trying out D.  It seems to have everything I like about Eiffel, but with C-style syntax.

Do you have any plans for adding dynamic class loading or reflection?

I see you can call DLLs and COM objects, but what I'm referring to is Java-style dynamic loading.

I realize that this might affect your ability to make certain optimizations (i.e., you'd have to use virtual function pointers for any dynamically loaded class), but it's really convenient for making plug-in style interfaces for programs.

Thanks,


Ken Carpenter

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> I am very interested in trying out D.  It seems to have everything I like about Eiffel, but with C-style syntax.
>
> Do you have any plans for adding dynamic class loading or reflection?
>
> I see you can call DLLs and COM objects, but what I'm referring to is Java-style dynamic loading.
>
> I realize that this might affect your ability to make certain
optimizations
> (i.e., you'd have to use virtual function pointers for any dynamically loaded class), but it's really convenient for making plug-in style interfaces for programs.

It's possible in the future, but I'm not sure how it would be implemented.