2013/2/23 deadalnix <deadalnix@gmail.com>
On Friday, 22 February 2013 at 15:32:42 UTC, kenji hara wrote:
Yes, then the B's definition should raise "mutable A.foo() is not
overridden but hidden in B" (but doesn't because of bug 8366).


I don't really understand why adding a special case for something that has no real use case.

In old age, it had thrown HiddenFuncError in runtime, and some years ago, it had been changed to compile-time error.
It is one of design in D to avoid unintended method hiding issue.

Kenji Hara