[Development] Ideas for adding an argument with default value to a virtual method

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 24 de January de 2012 22.45.54, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> I think it makes sense, but that is an often used and overridden virtual 
> method, and changing it would not make the compiler notify about the
> porting  need (Can't expect downstream to be using Q_DECL_OVERRIDE
> already).

Change the return value of the method that you don't want overridden to 
something completely different.

You cannot override a method with a non-covariant return type, so that will 
cause a compiler error and point to the change.
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