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| Subject | Re: Functions with package protection | ||||||||||||
| From | Frank Benoit <keinfarbton@googlemail.com> | ||||||||||||
| Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:06:26 +0200 | ||||||||||||
| Newsgroups | digitalmars.D | ||||||||||||
Jacob Carlborg schrieb: > In the D documentation at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/function.html > it says the following: "All non-static non-private non-template member > functions are virtual", but this seems not to be the case. What I've > heard and as the following example shows functions declared as package > are non-virtual. > > module main; > > import tango.io.Stdout; > > class A > { > package void foo () > { > Stdout("A").newline; > } > } > > class B : A > { > package void foo () > { > Stdout("B").newline; > } > } > > void main () > { > A a = new B; > a.foo; > } > > This will print "A", but according to the documentation package is > virtual and therefore this should print "B" but doesn't. Either the > documentation is wrong or the compiler. > > Compiled with GDC on OSX, I think it will give the same result with dmd > also. Unfortunately on http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/attribute.html#ProtectionAttribute it is said: "Package extends private so that package members can be accessed from code in other modules that are in the same package. This applies to the innermost package only, if a module is in nested packages." | |||||||||||||
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