Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins I'm having trouble resolving that DNS name.
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 10:18:08 UTC, Luís Marques wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins I'm having trouble resolving that DNS name. Technical server issues, should be back now.
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 13:44:15 UTC, cym13 wrote: BTW, a bit HS but in your article about Rust (https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/01/thoughts_about_rust_from_d_programmer) there is a “” lying in the first example. Thanks, fixed.
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 14:11:44 UTC, Meta wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins Are you planning on submitting this article to Reddit/Hacker News? There is something wrong about submitting own articles into aggregators :) Feel free to do so if you want to.
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 11:36:49 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 10:18:08 UTC, Luís Marques wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins I'm having trouble resolving that DNS name. Technical server issues, should be back now. BTW, a bit HS but in your article about Rust (https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/01/thoughts_about_rust_from_d_programmer) there is a “” lying in the first example.
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins Are you planning on submitting this article to Reddit/Hacker News?
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 14:32:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 14:11:44 UTC, Meta wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins Are you planning on submitting this article to Reddit/Hacker News? There is something wrong about submitting own articles into aggregators :) Feel free to do so if you want to. Sounds good to me. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3j8bi2/oop_composition_with_mixins_in_the_d_programming/
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins It seems like mixin templates can be used like alias this, but mixin templates are more general. When would I want to use alias this instead of a mixin template?
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 14:44:27 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins It seems like mixin templates can be used like alias this, but mixin templates are more general. When would I want to use alias this instead of a mixin template? `alias this` is more suitable for cases when reused functionality is self-contained and useful separately. It is closer in spirit to inheritance because you take existing entity and provide its API as part of new aggregate. As a simple rule of a thumb, I'd go for `alias this` approach when mixed in functionality does not need to know anything about surrounding context (== has no template parameters). mixin template feels more convenient for small configurable building blocks that don't have well-defined semantics without any specific context. Important difference between `alias this` and `mixin` is that `alias this` allows implicit casting to the aliased field type - which can be both merit and drawback depending on design intentions.
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 13:28:23 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins Nice. I've only just started exploring code reuse with template mixins, and used it to great effect in my last project. Blogs like this are useful since there aren't many examples in other languages (Ruby modules come to mind). Atila Inheritance certainly is 'the base class of all evil'. I have a theory that the reason inheritance is so overused in OOP languages lies in the way it is taught - the OOP aspects cover much of the syntax of the language and hence much teaching material revolves around inheritance. This makes the student believe that inheritance is therefore the 'right way' to proceed. Many years of pain have, however, taught me to avoid inheritance and to prefer composition - even/especially when using e.g. Java.
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 16:21:04 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: What I think D community would benefit from would be a series of Idiomatic D articles. This collection of short pieces comes to mind: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins Nice. I've only just started exploring code reuse with template mixins, and used it to great effect in my last project. Blogs like this are useful since there aren't many examples in other languages (Ruby modules come to mind). Atila
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
Good article. However, composition also has some drawbacks and they should be explained. Speaking about Java and inheritance, and popular believe it is overused - Yes, maybe it is, but Java does not have language features D has, and it should not be blamed for that. Interesting article for those looking for more serious criticism of Java and inheritance: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~ewan/qualitas/studies/inheritance/TemperoYangNobleECOOP2013-pre.pdf What I think D community would benefit from would be a series of Idiomatic D articles.
Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins
