On 2015-08-21 07:06, Walter Bright wrote:
This function:
http://dlang.org/phobos/object.html#.Object.factory
enables a program to instantiate any class defined in the program. To
make it work, though, every class in the program has to have a TypeInfo
generated for it. This leads to bloat:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14758
and sometimes the bloat can be overwhelming.
The solution seems straightforward - only have Object.factory be able to
instantiate classes marked as 'export'. This only makes sense anyway.
What do you think?
I think, or rather know, that this will break serialization, i.e. my
library Orange [1]. I really like that one doesn't need to register a
class to be able to (de)serialize it.
I can't believe this change is purposed that will clearly break valid
code. But at the same time there are other breaking changes you refuse
to do that would fix design flaws in the language.
I still remember your rant about your old D1 project that didn't compile
with the latest D2 compiler.
[1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange
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/Jacob Carlborg
