From 9129813545317331810 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccbfcafab96cf493 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-30 10:00:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: pdimov@mmltd.net (Peter Dimov) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposol to increase robustness of programs Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:59:09 GMT Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <7dc3b1ea.0111300954.186f1ff5@posting.google.com> References: <3BFE97B3.91430FB1@wanadoo.fr> <3C058126.36357A00@acm.org> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1007143158 mail2news:3438 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Nov 2001 17:54:50 GMT Lines: 30 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:8384 Pete Becker wrote in message news:<3C058126.36357A00@acm.org>... [override keyword] > The reason that it doesn't get any support from me is that it solves a > non-problem. If you want to be sure that your member function overrides > a virtual function in the base, write a test case that calls it through > the base. You have to do this anyway, in order to check the behavior of > your derived class. So this error falls out automatically from routine > testing. You are right. Programmers that use unit tests (group #1) don't need override. On the other hand, programmers that do not do proper testing (group #2) will benefit from it. The cost will be an extra keyword. Not giving group #2 what they want will not automatically make them migrate to #1. -- Peter Dimov Multi Media Ltd. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]