• Frank Benoit (13/13) Nov 04 2007 Can we make the override keyword also be needed for implementing an
• Stewart Gordon (16/25) Nov 05 2007 I'm not sure about this. If the base class and an implemented interface...

Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:

Can we make the override keyword also be needed for implementing an
interface function.
This is not exactly overriding, but the purpose is the same. I want to
write the keyword to say "Mr Compiler, check the override/implementing
rules for a definition in the superclass or an interface! If the sig
doens't match one, give error.".

Another feature request here is:
The message "cannot instanciate abstract class XYZ..." is not so
helpful. Please give a tip, of at least one missing implementation. I
had several times the case where I needed to search a hierarchy for long
time to find out why a class is abstract. This is kind of more
complicated with D2 where a const thing changes the signature and
override is also needed.

"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

"Frank Benoit" <keinfarbton googlemail.com> wrote in message 
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 Can we make the override keyword also be needed for implementing an
 interface function.
 This is not exactly overriding, but the purpose is the same. I want to
 write the keyword to say "Mr Compiler, check the override/implementing
 rules for a definition in the superclass or an interface! If the sig
 doens't match one, give error.".

I'm not sure about this.  If the base class and an implemented interface 
both have methods with the same name but different signatures, it could lead 
to a situation where you intended to override a method from the base class, 
and used the override keyword to try to check for this, but ended up 
implementing an interface method instead.  Or vice versa.

 Another feature request here is:
 The message "cannot instanciate abstract class XYZ..." is not so
 helpful. Please give a tip, of at least one missing implementation.

<snip>

Been proposed several times.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=204

Though personally, I'd like a requirement that abstract classes be declared 
with the abstract keyword like in Java.

Stewart.

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