• d-bugmail puremagic.com (40/41) Sep 13 2020 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21246

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21246

          Issue ID: 21246
           Summary: Compiler must show mismatching types when functions do
                    not properly override
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: andrej.mitrovich gmail.com

foo.d:

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module foo;

import std.datetime : Clock;

class B
{
    void set (Clock clock) { }
}
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test.d:

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import foo;

class Clock { }
class C : B
{
    override void set (Clock clock) { }
}

void main () { }
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$ dmd test.d
 test.d(6,19): Error: function `void test.C.set(Clock clock)` does not override
any function, did you mean to override `void foo.B.set(Clock clock)`?

This diagnostic is infuriating. You could easily spend the better part of an
hour trying to diagnose what's wrong - the actual issue is that `Clock` refers
to two completely different symbols. 

But the compiler is not helpful - it keeps recommending to override the method
without giving a hint to what is wrong.

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