Re: The Final(ize) Challenge

[Frits van Bommel]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Good point! Now define Unfinalize that opens the final methods of a 
class for method overriding.

class A
{
    final int foo(string) { ... }
}

class UnfinalizeA : A
{
    int foo(string a) { return super.foo(a); }
}

DMD rightly doesn't allow this:
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test.d(8): Error: function test.UnfinalizeA.foo cannot override final function 
test.A.foo
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There's a workaround though:
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class UnfinalizeA : A
{
    int foo_(string a) { return super.foo(a); }
    alias foo_ foo;
}
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