Two things

can we have a new news group d.bugs for just compiler bug reporting and checking if issues are known bugs or required features.

It appears, that if you overload a function that you have not overrided
the compiler can not find it.
in delphi there is the overload attribute, D has override (which I belive is
optional) but no overload or explicit way to import from superclass as the
compiler when overloading.

you will see in the following code example.

import c.stdio;

class B
{
bit func() { return true; }
// but works without problem
bit spam() { return false; }
}

class D : /* public */ B
// the public did not improve things, strange that was allowed!
{
int func( char[] name ) { return name.length; }
//  but this solves the problem :(
// comment this out and this does not compile
bit func() { return super.func(); }
}

int main( char[][] args )
{
D d = new D();

if ( d.func() )
{
return d.func( args[0] );
}
if ( d.spam() )
{
return args.length;
}
return 0;
}

Agree on the separate bug group.

<mike.wynn@l8night.co.uk> wrote in message news:adgn0d$2c15$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Two things
>
> can we have a new news group d.bugs for just compiler bug reporting and checking if issues are known bugs or required features.
>
> It appears, that if you overload a function that you have not overrided
> the compiler can not find it.
> in delphi there is the overload attribute, D has override (which I belive
is
> optional) but no overload or explicit way to import from superclass as the compiler when overloading.
>
> you will see in the following code example.
>
> import c.stdio;
>
> class B
> {
> bit func() { return true; }
> // but works without problem
> bit spam() { return false; }
> }
>
> class D : /* public */ B
> // the public did not improve things, strange that was allowed!
> {
> int func( char[] name ) { return name.length; }
> //  but this solves the problem :(
> // comment this out and this does not compile
> bit func() { return super.func(); }
> }
>
> int main( char[][] args )
> {
> D d = new D();
>
> if ( d.func() )
> {
> return d.func( args[0] );
> }
> if ( d.spam() )
> {
> return args.length;
> }
> return 0;
> }
>
>