Re: RFC 189 (v1) Objects : Hierarchical calls to initializers and destructors

[Michael G Schwern]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:13:17AM -0700, Matt Youell wrote:
> What happens when the base classes' author finally fixes the problem
> you wrote around (and incidentally changes touchy implementation
> details in the base)?  What happens someday when you can't see the
> implementation of the base class that you are inheriting from? 
> Ack!!! =^)

Yes, welcome to the dirty, icky real world.  Life sucks, people will
write bad code, you will have to inherit from it.  Sometimes you have
to break a little encapsulation to make an omlet.  I'd rather it was
not so, but its better to accept it and deal than deny.

Of course, I'm sure Damian's hat isn't out of rabbits yet.


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