[Issue 5056] Warning against virtual method call from constructor

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Witold Baryluk <baryluk at smp.if.uj.edu.pl> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Witold Baryluk <baryluk at smp.if.uj.edu.pl> 2010-11-21 19:07:23 PST ---
> > This confuses me. It works both in D1 and D2. Maybe it's a regression?
> > The spec says:
> > 
> > "3. It is illegal to refer to this implicitly or explicitly prior to making a
> > constructor call."
> > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/class.html#constructors
> 
> I interpret that the same way you do.   I think maybe that this is a rule that
> was removed, but someone forgot to remove it from the docs?  I think you should
> file a separate doc bug on it.
> 
> It doesn't strike me as a good requirement anyways.  What problems does having
> that restriction prevent?

Hmm. I was using this "feature", setting fields before calling super(), for
VERY long time. It worked, so i never actually payed attention, if i call
super() at the beginning or the end of constructor - both worked well.

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