"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:lg0vtc$2q94$1...@digitalmars.com...
I find it peculiar to desire a 'final accessor'. After all, class C { int x;final int getX() { return x; } <= what the heck is this function for?}
Yeah, it's stupid, but people do it all over the place anyway.
It's a major breaking change. It'll break nearly every D program out there that uses classes.
This is nonsense. I tried out the warning on some of my projects, and they required ZERO changes - because it's a warning!
Phobos requires 37 "virtual:"s to be added - or just change the makefile to use '-wi' instead of '-w'. Druntime needed 25.
We don't even need to follow the usual 6-months per stage deprecation - We could leave it as a warning for 2 years if we wanted!
Grepping for class declarations and sticking in "virtual:" is as trivial as a fix can possibly be.
