On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 at 09:32:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
AFAIK, no official decision has ever been made. It seemed like
Walter was
convinced that it was worth it to make non-virtual the default,
and some
discussion went into how to do the transition, but I don't
believe that Andrei
has ever liked the idea, and Walter never said that it was
definitively
happening, much as he seemed to have been convinced that it
should happen. And
no one has implemented a pull request for it, so nothing has
happened. So
AFAIK, it could go either way at this point. We should probably
create a DIP
for it and discuss it. I've been meaning to do that but have
been quite busy
lately and haven't gotten around to it.
- Jonathan M Davis
Anyway, the introducing of the virtual keyword could be useful,
even without the change. With that, we could interrupt final
labes.
I use mostly:
----
final:
// final methods
----
but it would be nice if I don't have to put all virtual methods
above the label. With virtual I could do it this way:
----
final:
// final methods
virtual:
// virtual methods
----
That's a huge comfort.
