On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 06:48:57 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
Templates+classes = require function body.
Why? Templated methods are not virtual, they are final and
cannot be inherited (so its a little strange that the override
is valid).
Ah well. I would've expected a compiler error, not an obscure
linker error, but as Arafel said:
Finally, have also in mind that if the function had been
declared abstract (as it arguably should), a compile-time error
would have been generated [2].
Maybe it was an error on my part for not declaring the function
as abstract? My view was that the abstract attribute on a class
marks all its members as virtual unless they have a body, which
is how it works in, say, Java.
Still, kinda odd that the linker is the one to call me out, and
not the compiler. Pretty unexpected.
