Disable GC entirely

[Dmitry Olshansky]

09-Apr-2013 14:18, Manu пишет:
> On 9 April 2013 13:09, Rob T <alanb at ucora.com <mailto:alanb at ucora.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     On Monday, 8 April 2013 at 08:21:06 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
>
>         The C++ state hasn't changed though. We still avoid virtual
>         calls like the
>         plague.
>         One of my biggest design gripes with D, hands down, is that
>         functions are
>         virtual by default. I believe this is a critical mistake, and
>         the biggest
>         one in the language by far.
>
>
>     My understanding of this is that while all of your class functions
>     will be virtual by default, the compiler will reduce them to
>     non-virtual unless you actually override them, and to override by
>     mistake is difficult because you have to specify the "override"
>     keyword to avoid a compiler error.
>
>
> Thus successfully eliminating non-open-source libraries from D...
> Making a dependency on WPO is a big mistake.
>

final class Foo{ //no inheritance
final: //no virtuals
...
}

2 extra words and you are done. The only problem I see is that there is 
no way to "undo" final on a few methods later...

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky