title: Reintroducing functions in Delphi
body: <p>What was the motivation for having the <code>reintroduce</code> keyword in Delphi?</p>
  
  <p>If you have a child class that contains a function with the same name as a virtual function in the parent class and it is not declared with the override modifier then it is a compile error. Adding the reintroduce modifier in such situations fixes the error, but I have never grasped the reasoning for the compile error.</p>