(Non)Abstract Funcs, Linker Errors, and Wild Goose Chases

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, April 27, 2012 06:57:28 Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> You have my sympathy. Since working with D, I don't think I've *ever*
> used the "declare then implement" model. My personal opinion is that the
> compiler should require .di files for declaring stubbed methods.

That would be a problem because of documentation. You need to be able to 
include stubbed out functions for ddoc (Phobos generally does that with 
version(StdDdoc) when it needs to), otherwise platform-specific stuff doesn't 
end up in the documentation when you generate it on _other_ platforms. And I 
think that it would be unreasonable to require that that be done with .di 
files.

- Jonathan M Davis