[Issue 9340] New: Covariant return type conflicts with out contract.

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           Summary: Covariant return type conflicts with out contract.
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody at puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: epi at atari8.info


--- Comment #0 from Adrian Matoga <epi at atari8.info> 2013-01-17 14:55:58 PST ---
The following test case fails to compile with the following error message:
test.d(21): Error: cast(const(BaseBar))__result is not an lvalue
Comment out line (1) or change ConcreteBar to BaseBar in (2) and it compiles.
That means the workaround is to use base type in the overriding method.


import std.stdio;

class BaseBar
{
    abstract string bar();
}

class BaseFoo
{
    abstract BaseBar createBar()
    out(result) { assert(result !is null); } body { assert(false); } // (1)
}

class ConcreteBar : BaseBar
{
    override string bar() { return "ConcreteBar"; }
}

class ConcreteFoo : BaseFoo
{
    override ConcreteBar createBar() { return new ConcreteBar(); } // (2)
}

void main()
{
    auto foo = new ConcreteFoo();
    writeln(foo.createBar().bar());
}

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