On Fri, 27 May 2011 13:25:51 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 5/27/11 1:06 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
A couple of years ago, Walter gave a talk on hijacking to NWCPP. It all
went well until HiddenFunc, at which point Walter's assertion that the
way out was by throwing an exception was hotly debated. Several people
suggested alternative, of whom one proposed (4) above. Everybody agreed
it's a good solution, and Walter had the presence of mind and humility
to acknowledge that solution and to promise to look into implementing
it. Unfortunately, that event was forgotten... until now.
Andrei
Andrei, there was a discussion about it here on this NG too. I too think
that (4) is definitely the best solution. At least that is what I would
like D2 to do...
Just talked to Walter - he did implement something similar that
eliminates HiddenFunc, just only with -w. I ran a couple of tests and I
find the behavior reasonable. (He does require introducing all overloads
in derived classes, which is more permissive than what I had in mind but
still eliminates HiddenFunc.)
This is perhaps a good time to move these two -w features into the
flag-free compiler: requiring override and detecting hidden functions
during compilation.
I think maybe this is a good thing for a bug report :)
I'll make one.
-Steve
