On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 at 00:28:24 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 9/9/13 12:47 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 09:37:07PM +0200, Namespace wrote:
It's been a while since Manu convinced Walter and Andrei to
introduce a virtual Keyword and to change the default from
virtual
methods to final methods.
Anything new? Anybody working on that? I would love to see
that
soon.
This is going to break a lot of code. We'd need some kind of
deprecation
path. And even then, it may anger a lot of existing users.
T
After I've seen a pretty cool demo of clang-modernize
(http://clang.llvm.org/extra/ModernizerUsage.html), I think the
best way to attack this and similar problems is to add a class
hierarchy analyzer: a command-line utility that is fed an
entire project and adds as many 'final' as possible without
changing semantics.
Time has come to migrate such functionality to tools. We keep
on telling that "nobody uses the tools" but it seems experience
contradicts that belief.
Andrei
Does it mean that we have to delay the change (virtual by default
-> final by default) somewhat, but still introduce the virtual
keyword?
Or does it mean that nothing is introduced and everything stays
as it is?
