Re: All right, all right! Interim decision regarding qualified Object methods

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Thursday, 12 July 2012 at 13:39:54 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:20:47 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
If we define alternative free generic functions in object.d 
for the four culprit methods (and have the compiler, druntime, 
and stdlib use them instead of the methods), those functions 
can check whether a given class object has overridden the 
old-style functions. In that case, that means we're dealing 
with legacy classes and proceed the old-style way. Otherwise, 
proceed the new way.

Hm... I don't like this, it slows down a very basic function.
I think if we want a solution that allows old code to work, why 
not what Timon suggested? Have a base class for Object 
(RawObject was suggested) that does not implement the 
opFunctions.  It would still break code, but would be easy to 
fix (just specify your class derives from Object, not 
RawObject).

-Steve