From 8610426706104962072 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccbfcafab96cf493 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-28 11:05:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Pete Becker Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposol to increase robustness of programs Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:03:57 GMT Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3C04345C.1CB4BEF@acm.org> References: <3C025715.9050709@earthlink.net> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1006974242 mail2news:10569 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) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Nov 2001 00:48:02 GMT X-Accept-Language: en Lines: 30 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:8339 Dave Harris wrote: > > eldiener@earthlink.net (Edward Diener) wrote (abridged): > > In the example given, the original poster wanted an addition to the > > language added because he missed the fact that a member function > > declared in a base class was virtual. > > No. Perhaps you should read the example again. > > The problem was that he ended up with *no* function (with matching > signature) in the base class, not a virtual one. And he arrived there > because of a change made by the base class's author; at the time the > derived class was written, it was correct. Good point: I missed that in the original discussion. Of course, any maintainence programmer who changes a virtual function to non-virtual should be immediately shot. No trial, no appeal, no pleas for clemency. (Sorry about the harhs images -- I'm watching the news, so I'm in a foul mood). -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com) --- [ 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 ]