Re: optional feature with contract inheritance? (design question)

2010-02-27 Thread Lutger
Jonathan M Davis wrote: ... Generally, I speaking, I think that having functions which override functions from a base class and throw if they're used is a bad design. It may be that it makes perfect sense in some contexts, but generally, I'd consider it a very bad idea. Personally, I hate it

Re: optional feature with contract inheritance? (design question)

2010-02-27 Thread Jonathan M Davis
Lutger wrote: Jonathan M Davis wrote: Lutger wrote: True, it only adds AssertError and that could be replaced with regular asserts. Thanks. ??? Regular asserts? When asserts in D fail, they throw an exception of type AssertError. So, unless you're talking about explicitly