On Monday, 4 August 2025 at 02:03:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I don't think that I've ever seen anyone claiming before that a
an instance of a struct should not be considered an object.
Calling a plain old data like a vec2 an "object" is projecting
and shouldnt be done.
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The terminol
On Sunday, August 3, 2025 9:31:34 AM Mountain Daylight Time Paul Backus via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> I have never seen any D programmer use "object" to mean "struct
> or class instance."
That is always how I use the term. I see no reason to differentiate between
what an instance of a struct i
On Sunday, 3 August 2025 at 15:31:34 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
The second one comes from C, where "object" refers to any value
stored in memory. This kind of "object" is defined in the
["Object Model" section][2] of the language specification, and
is mostly of interest to those writing low-lev
On Sunday, August 3, 2025 5:29:46 AM Mountain Daylight Time Mike Parker via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Classes and structs in C++ are both value types, and instances of
> both are referred to as objects. This isn't unusual.
>
> An object is a concrete instance of a type described by a class
> or
On Sunday, 3 August 2025 at 11:11:43 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
In Programming in D book, page 247, it is written: Variables
of struct and class types are called objects.
This struck me as odd and confusing. I have always been taught
that objects are instances of classes. That is, new MyClass
On Sunday, 3 August 2025 at 11:11:43 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
Please assist with my "deprogramming" from "objects" being only
for reference types.
the words mean nothing, it was all compounding mistakes that then
people exploited to sell books
https://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Programmi
On Sunday, 3 August 2025 at 11:11:43 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
In Programming in D book, page 247, it is written: Variables
of struct and class types are called objects.
This struck me as odd and confusing. I have always been taught
that objects are instances of classes. That is, new MyClass
On 03/08/2025 11:11 PM, Brother Bill wrote:
Am curious whether experienced D developers actually refer to both
struct and class variables as "objects" without confusion.
Strictly speaking the definition from the C standard:
"region of data storage in the execution environment, the contents of
In Programming in D book, page 247, it is written: Variables of
struct and class types are called objects.
This struck me as odd and confusing. I have always been taught
that objects are instances of classes. That is, new MyClass
creates an instance or object of MyClass.
There was a wall
