On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 19:17:05 UTC, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
On 5/31/2013 4:42 AM, Manu wrote:
People already have to type 'override' in every derived class,
and
they're happy to do that. Requiring to type 'virtual' in the
base is
hardly an inconvenience by contrast. Actually, it's quite
orthogonal.
D tends to prefer being explicit. Why bend the rules in this
case,
especially considering the counterpart (override) is expected
to be
explicit? Surely both being explicit is what people would
expect?
Maybe the solution is to make everyone equally unhappy:
all (non constructor) class methods must be either final,
override, or virtual, if you leave one of these off, you get an
error :)
A method can be override AND final.
