virtual-by-default rant

[bearophile]

F i L:

> I'm a bit confused. Reading through the virtual function's docs 
> (http://dlang.org/function.html#virtual-functions) it says:
> 
> "All non-static non-private non-template member functions are 
> virtual. This may sound inefficient, but since the D compiler 
> knows all of the class hierarchy when generating code, all 
> functions that are not overridden can be optimized to be 
> non-virtual."

This is so much theoretical that I think this should be removed from the D docs. And to be put back when one DMD compiler is able to do this. Otherwise it's just false advertising :-)

Bye,
bearophile