***** D method override mechanisms borked ******

[jcc7]

In article <e7sa0h$3no$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Dave says...
>
>kris wrote:
>> 
>> If Walter wishes to open up the topic for input, and chooses to be frank 
>> about the original design and what his concerns are, that would make for 
>> interesting material ... we could perhaps all learn a thing or two
>> 
>
>Yes, I wish Walter would.

Does Walter still read this newsgroup? I know that I don't read it as much as I
used to now that it's mostly automated posts from bugzilla. ;) (He might just
hang out in bugzilla itself and ignore this newsgroup.)

Aside from the politics of personal destruction (which I try not to participate
in), this discussion has been way over my head. It sounds like an important
issue, but it seems like it'd fit in more over at the main D newsgroup than in
the bugs newsgroup. 

The specification secretly changed in the middle of the night? Important parts
of the spec have been quietly deleted? Maybe the Digital Mars website has been
broken into by Microsoft, and Walter has been replaced by a clone created by the
Sun Corporation. Sounds like something the broader D community would be
interested in finding out about.


>Kris, you have alluded to, and IIRC Sean confirmed that the docs. may 
>have changed on this issue.
>
>If that's the case, Walter could easily clear this up if he happens to 
>be reading any of this (perhaps he's completely heads downs right now 
>and isn't even aware of it; he's been known to do that once in a while :)

Maybe he's unaware of this discussion. Maybe he's ignoring it. There's no way to
know for sure.


>Anybody try pulling the old docs. from one of those online caches?

Some unofficial PDF snapshots are available, too:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageSpecification

jcc7