On Friday, 19 October 2012 at 22:18:29 UTC, foobar wrote:
virtual private is an obscure C++ idiom which I think the
argument for is extremely week. I think Walter made the right
decision here in favor of more readable code.
Really? it is the entire point of NVI. I've seen it used all the
time. It is even used (and documented) in the STL, as the way to
customize streams...
On Friday, 19 October 2012 at 23:14:32 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Friday, October 19, 2012 23:22:26 monarch_dodra wrote:
According to TDPL, this should be legal. In particular, there
is
an entire section about it regarding NVI.
No idea what it going on, but I'm curious for answers.
For interfaces, where it's doing something to specifically
enable NVI. It never
says that for classes.
Good point. I've not much experience with interfaces yet, so the
difference didn't strike at me.
Yeah, once you define an interface, I guess the point of virtual
private-ness becomes moot.
