Final by default?

[Manu]

On 17 March 2014 01:25,
<7d89a89974b0ff40.invalid at internationalized.invalid>wrote:

> On Sunday, 16 March 2014 at 13:23:33 UTC, Araq wrote:
>
>> I note that you are not able to counter my argument and so you escape to
>> the meta level. But don't worry, I won't reply anymore.
>>
>
> Discussing OO without a context is kind of pointless since there is
> multiple schools in the OO arena. The two main ones being:
>
> 1. The original OO analysis & design set forth by the people behind
> Simula67. Which basically is about representing abstractions (subsets) of
> the real word in the computer.
>
> 2. The ADT approach which you find in C++ std libraries & co.
>
> These two perspectives are largely orthogonal…
>
> That said, I think it to be odd to not use the term "virtual" since it has
> a long history (Simula has the "virtual" keyword). It would look like a
> case of being different for the sake of being different.
>
> Then again, I don't really mind virtual by default if whole program
> optimization is still a future goal for D.
>

Whole program optimisation can't do anything to improve the situation; it
is possible that DLL's may be loaded at runtime, so there's nothing the
optimiser can do, even at link time.
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