Is Override Still Mandatory?
Rob T
rob at ucora.com
Tue Nov 13 17:39:17 PST 2012
On Monday, 12 November 2012 at 03:08:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
> On Monday, November 12, 2012 03:58:17 Vijay Nayar wrote:
>> I was under the impression that the attribute "override" was
>> mandatory when replacing a virtual function in a base class.
>> However, code that leaves this out has no errors using dmd
>> v2.060.
>
> It's mandatory if you compile with -w. Eventually, it will be
> mandatory all
> the time. It's just that it's being phased in via -w rather
> than requiring it
> immediately. That way, people have time to fix their code to
> use it before it's
> required. Unfortunately though, a lot of people fail to compile
> with either -w
> or -wi, so they're happily writing _new_ code which will break
> once override
> is always required, which means that phasing like this doesn't
> necessarily
> actually fix the problem.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
I was about to ask this same question today! Thanks for the
answer.
--rt
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