virtual-by-default rant

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/18/12 6:59 AM, F i L wrote:
> Manu wrote:
>> D knows nothing about the class hierarchy when generating code, I
>> don't know how it can make that claim?
>
> How does D not know about class hierarchy when generating code? That
> doesn't make sense to me. It *has* to know to even generate code.

It knows about ancestors of each type but not about descendants.

Andrei