On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:28:24PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 9/9/13 12:47 PM, 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. [...] > After I've seen a pretty cool demo of clang-modernize > (http://clang.llvm.org/extra/ModernizerUsage.html), I think the best > way to attack this and similar problems is to add a class hierarchy > analyzer: a command-line utility that is fed an entire project and > adds as many 'final' as possible without changing semantics. > > Time has come to migrate such functionality to tools. We keep on > telling that "nobody uses the tools" but it seems experience > contradicts that belief. [...]
This would also be a good use case to motivate a reusable lexer/parser (e.g., std.d.lexer that has been suggested for review). T -- Some days you win; most days you lose.
