Open Methods: From C++ to D

[Jean-Louis Leroy via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 15:14:04 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 30/08/2017 4:10 PM, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 14:37:14 UTC, Arun 
>> Chandrasekaran wrote:
>>> [...]
>> 
>> I sort of agree, and somewhat regret not picking 'openmethod'. 
>> I considered both. Also @specialize. If anyone had pushed for 
>> @openmethod before the article, I would almost certainly have 
>> given in.
>> 
>> My reasoning was, I hope to promote the term 'method' as the 
>> standard name for polymorphism from outside, as opposed to 
>> vfunc. We usually say "virtual functions", rarely "virtual 
>> member functions". Membership is implicit.
>> 
>
> Rename, alias to old and have it deprecated.
> Keep around for a couple of releases, done!

Deprecated, already? :-D Hmmm maybe...Let's see if anyone speaks 
in favor of just @method.