DMD 2.066 Alpha

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On Friday, 13 June 2014 at 20:29:46 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Friday, 13 June 2014 at 17:12:44 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:49:32 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Virtual by default will not change. Being able to negate the 
>>> "final:" label is nice to have but not a must. Adding a 
>>> keyword for that doesn't scale - it would mean we'd need to 
>>> add one keyword to undo each label.
>>
>> To that end, I thought we were moving towards a more scalable 
>> solution: like !final or final!false or final(false), which 
>> could be nice for metaprogramming.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Yes that was the decision, and with the advantage that the
> parameter can be computed at compile time.

I honestly don't see this as a noticeable advantage, at least in
the case of final. Not to mention you could just use "static
if(dovirtual) { result ~= "final(false)"; }".