On Friday, 17 February 2012 at 03:24:50 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
No. Absolutely not. I hate the fact that C++ does this with
virtual. It makes it so that you have to constantly look at the
base classes to figure out what's virtual and what isn't. It
harms maintenance and code understandability. And now you want
to do that with @safe, pure, nothrow, and const? Yuck.
I can understand wanting to save some typing, but I really
think that this harms code maintainability. It's the sort of
thing that an IDE is good for. It does stuff like generate the
function signatures for you or fill in the attributes that are
required but are missing.
Besides the fact that not everyone uses an IDE, my other
counter-argument to these "the IDE generates your boilerplate"
arguments is that code is read and modified more often than it is
written. I don't like reading or modifying boilerplate code any
more than I like writing it. Besides, if you're using a fancy
IDE, can't it show you the protection attributes inherited from
the derived class?
