virtual-by-default rant

[F i L]

On Sunday, 18 March 2012 at 03:27:40 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> 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

Dammit, I was afraid someone would say something like that. Well 
at least it's a good goal. It is a bit of false advertising 
though, honestly it should just be marked "implementation in 
progress" or something like that.