On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 23:32:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 3:24:07 PM MDT Adam D. Ruppe
via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Object.factory kinda sux and I'd actually like to remove it
(among other people). There's no plan to actually do that, but
still, just on principle I want to turn people away.
While there may not currently be plans to be remove it, as
there _are_ plans to add ProtoObject as the new root class
underneath Object, at some point here, it's likely that a large
percentage of classes won't have anything to do with Object, so
relying on Object.factory to be able to construct class Objects
in general isn't likely to be a viable path in the long term -
though presumably it would work for a code base that's written
specifically with it in mind.
Personally, I'm hoping that we eventually get to the point
where Walter and Andrei are willing to outright deprecate
Object itself, but I expect that ProtoObject will have to have
been in use for a while before we have any chance of that
happening. Either way, I think that it's clear that most code
bases should go with a solution other than Object.factory if at
all reasonably possible.
- Jonathan M Davis
That's interesting! Thanks for mentioning.
If you don't mind, what are the complaints regarding Object? Or
can you link me to discussions/issues/documents that point out
the shortcomings/pitfalls?
I've probably run into a bunch of them, but I realize D has come
a long way since that original design and I wouldn't be surprised
if there's a lot more for me to learn here.
