abstract base class and class members

[David]

Am 04.03.2012 19:22, schrieb H. S. Teoh:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:22:47PM +0100, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 03/04/2012 06:16 PM, David wrote:
>>> Is this intended behaviour? http://ideone.com/xrvvL
>>>
>>> shouldn't the 2nd writeln print the same as the first, well at least the
>>> same content of i?
>>
>> This is intended behaviour. You have two distinct definitions of i.
>> If you want to set i to 2 in the derived class, do so in the class
>> constructor.
>
> Yeah, only member functions can be overridden in the derived class (and
> even then, D requires you to explicitly state that with the 'override'
> keyword).
>
> Makes one wonder, though... from an OO perspective, does it make sense
> to have overridable non-function members? What semantics would (should)
> that have?
>
>
> T
>
Thanks for your answers.

Maybe we should also allow override for fields.