On Monday, 26 October 2015 at 23:25:49 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
So we have TemplateThisParameters methods which are cool but
have some drawbacks.
They are templates so they are implicitly non-virtual and are
called based on the type of the reference.
It would be very nice to be able to auto generate method
overrides based on the this type with out having to drop a
mixin in every sub class.
This would be very useful for CT-reflection.
I will call this new feature auto override methods for the rest
of this post.
This kind of magic is detrimental to being able to reason about
the code you are writing. If libraries do this for example,
there's too much spooky action-at-a-distance occurring. Having
explicit mixins is the appropriate way to handle this.
