Am Fri, 31 May 2013 14:17:04 -0500 schrieb Sean Cavanaugh <worksonmymach...@gmail.com>:
> 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 private, which means inherently final. -- Marco