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

[Sean Kelly]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> 
> Damn, now all visibility / accessibility rules in D are totally broken.
> 
> I really don't think the system is ever going to work the way it is
> documented now. The interface stuff and part of classes use the covariance
> rule in inheritance. It's also possible to contravariantly inherit a base
> class using class foo: private bar {} (a la C++). Then there are private
> attributes in classes and modules that don't work so well either. Hmmpf,
> hope someone has time to sort this out. We're counting on you, Walter :)

I think a careful programmer could make it work through extensive use of 
'final'.  However, it's obviously preferable to simply fix the bug :-)


Sean