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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:31:22 -0400, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> 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.

Creating a stub function with implementation is quite easy.

-Steve