On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 22:24:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 3/11/2014 2:42 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
Well if we're going there, we should go the whole hog and have
final,
direct, and virtual.
Pardon my ignorance: What's 'direct'?
> It's a system programming language, so you should
be able to walk down the street naked as long as you are
prepared to put
up with the consequences.
There has been much debate in the programming community over
what exactly "system programming language" means. I think you,
sir, have found the winner! Gets my vote, anyway! :)
What I meant by final is simply the third leg of a tuffet. As I
understand it, final means called directly, and you can't
override, virtual means called through the vtable and you can
override, direct means called directly, but you can override
(hide) in a derived class, like if you define a method with the
same signature in a derived class in C++ when the base class
method is not marked as virtual.
I tried that with G++ the other day, and it still seems to
compile.
There may be other possibilities, I have not attempted to draw
the matrix table.
Steve
