Inheritance of mixin

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 May 2016 at 17:50:50 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
> On Monday, 2 May 2016 at 17:37:14 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> templatized functions in classes will never be virtual and 
>> there's a technical reason explained here:
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1657#c1
>>
>> (TL;DR: it's problematic to generate the vtbl)
>
> [...]
>
> That's not how it works currently, but there is no technical 
> reason it couldn't be *made* to work that way.
>
> Obviously this would be a breaking change though; `this T` 
> template methods that should retain the current behaviour could 
> be marked `final`. (Given that non-template methods are virtual 
> by default, I think requiring template methods to be marked 
> `final` would improve code clarity, anyway.)

Not that much a breaking change. Perhaps a slight decrease of the 
performances...and even not indeed: in all the previous usages 
devirtualization of the will be possible.