Inheritance has a lot of usages in our day-to-day work, and thus including it into a feature list is a must from my perspective. I have two use cases in hand right now: 1. Historically we were using another lib that supported inheritance and a lot of classes were written that leverage this feature. I don't like that lib, but I can't move to protobuf simply because it doesn't support inheritance. 2. I need to have a grid structure, that may contain any type: String, int, double, etc. To do so I'd like to have a List<BasicType> as a raw in a grid, where BasicType is an ancestor for IntType, DoubleType, StringType, etc. I can't imagine implementing this elegantly without inheritance. __ regards
On 17 мар, 19:22, Henner Zeller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 02:41, ctapobep <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So pity protobuf doesn't support inheritance, only because of this I > > can't use it. Any forecasts, are creators going to add this feature? > > There are good reasons not to support inheritance and it would be a > design problem if it was; so it is likely not supported. > > Typically if someone has the reflex to use inheritance, they actually > mean to do something else. So what is the exact use case you want to > address ? > > -h -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
