On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 12:01:15 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Don" wrote in message
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I agree completely.
Some things that really should be fixed, don't get fixed
because of a paranoid fear of breaking code. And this tends to
happen with the issues that can give nice warning messages and
are easy to fix...
As usual I agree with every single thing in this post, and
Sean's. Regressions are bad but have nothing to do with using
slow, controlled deprecation to make the language better.
It might be worthwhile to consider a compiler switch which would
require forced virtual/final annotations on all methods as per
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11616#c4
While code compiled with such a switch would be a bit more
verbose, it would ensure that programmers were careful with
virtual. It was a good transition plan, and the idea has value
even if the final by default is delayed or abandoned.
I'd like to see final by default in D rather than it's successor.
It seems quite a bit easier to fix than some other unfortunate
default choices.
