• d-bugmail puremagic.com (21/21) Jul 01 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24643

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24643

          Issue ID: 24643
           Summary: Allow overriding of private/package class methods
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: qs.il.paperinik gmail.com

"Symbols with private visibility can only be accessed from within the same
module. Private member functions are implicitly final and cannot be
overridden."

This makes no sense as a derived class in the same module can "see" the method.

Also, the spec says nowhere that `package` visibility functions aren’t virtual
or abstract, but one get the error message: "function `A.f` `package` functions
cannot be `abstract`" And they cannot be overridden.

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