On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 15:14:04 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 30/08/2017 4:10 PM, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 14:37:14 UTC, Arun
Chandrasekaran wrote:
[...]
I sort of agree, and somewhat regret not picking 'openmethod'.
I considered both. Also @specialize. If anyone had pushed for
@openmethod before the article, I would almost certainly have
given in.
My reasoning was, I hope to promote the term 'method' as the
standard name for polymorphism from outside, as opposed to
vfunc. We usually say "virtual functions", rarely "virtual
member functions". Membership is implicit.
Rename, alias to old and have it deprecated.
Keep around for a couple of releases, done!
Deprecated, already? :-D Hmmm maybe...Let's see if anyone speaks
in favor of just @method.
