On Thursday, 30 January 2014 at 17:11:24 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:58:15 -0500, Frustrated
<c1514...@drdrb.com> wrote:
Essentially what it boils down to is treating interfaces like
classes that have no fields). To avoid the diamond problem
simply
always choose the method that is not from the interface(since
it
is "default"), which is done naturally with the vtable.
It's simpler than that. A function is a block of code. A vtable
entry points to a block of code. Just point the vtable entry at
the block of code that is the default implementation.
-Steve
But what if you want to provide some default behavior? We are not
dealing with abstract classes here.
Since there is currently no way to do what I am saying no
"solution" will be adequate unless it fulfills the behavior.
(again, it's not like we can't accomplish basically the same
thing, the point is mainly about simplification)
The question was about if there was any innate reason why this
type of behavior couldn't be accomplish using the vtable. I'm
assuming there is none and it could easily be done? (the compiler
just has to reserve the space and setup the pointers to the
functions?)
