What's about virtual?

[Namespace]

On Monday, 9 September 2013 at 19:48:50 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 09:37:07PM +0200, Namespace wrote:
>> It's been a while since Manu convinced Walter and Andrei to
>> introduce a virtual Keyword and to change the default from 
>> virtual
>> methods to final methods.
>> Anything new? Anybody working on that? I would love to see that
>> soon.
>
> This is going to break a lot of code. We'd need some kind of 
> deprecation
> path. And even then, it may anger a lot of existing users.
>
>
> T

Even if it would break code, the introducing of the virtual 
keyword could be done without. The change of virtual by default 
-> final by default could be done after the introducing.