On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 16:10:32 UTC, data pulverizer
wrote:
Hi all,
I have written an article about writing Julia style multiple
dispatch code in D
(https://github.com/dataPulverizer/dispatch-it-like-julia). I
am hoping that it is appropriate for the D blog.
Reviews please.
Many Thanks!
I think at one point I had actually suggested that dstats or
something be re-written in a Julia-like way (before I realized
how much work that would be!). It looks very pretty.
Nevertheless, you might be re-inventing the wheel a bit if you
want to build a whole library in this style. My recommendation
would be to write a front-end for the dstats.distrib and
dstats.random submodules in this style. That way you won't need
to re-write all the functions, you can just call ones from dstats
that have already been tested.
More generally, I prefer the structs because they don't rely on
the garbage collector, but the class/interface version is
prettier. Atila's concepts library has implements, which you
might find helpful. I have gently nudged him to work on something
that also can tell if a type is a subtype of another type more
generally (like a struct being a subtype of another struct). I
think this would really be a good use case for that functionality.
