On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 at 20:31:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I don't think the problem is with structs. The problem is that
programmers coming from other languages default to using
classes. The default in D should always be a struct. You use a
class because you actually need inheritance or because you want
to ensure that a type is always a reference type and don't want
to go to the trouble of writing a struct that way (and even
then, you should probably just write the struct that way).
Hmm... If we must emulate reference semantics manually, it feels
like C++ with explicit references, pointers and all sorts of
smart pointers, and obviates need for classes being reference
types: just emulate reference semantics as we must do it anyway.
