On Monday, November 12, 2012 03:58:17 Vijay Nayar wrote: > I was under the impression that the attribute "override" was > mandatory when replacing a virtual function in a base class. > However, code that leaves this out has no errors using dmd v2.060. It's mandatory if you compile with -w. Eventually, it will be mandatory all the time. It's just that it's being phased in via -w rather than requiring it immediately. That way, people have time to fix their code to use it before it's required. Unfortunately though, a lot of people fail to compile with either -w or -wi, so they're happily writing _new_ code which will break once override is always required, which means that phasing like this doesn't necessarily actually fix the problem.
- Jonathan M Davis