Why is the 'protected' attribute considered useless?
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Tue Jan 29 21:55:35 PST 2013
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 22:38:39 Chad Joan wrote:
> I've read more than once now that 'protected' is considered useless in
> D. Why is this?
I've heard some people say it (though not many), but I have no idea why anyone
would think that. You need protected if you ever want to override internal
functionality. And in D, if you want to do NVI (
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill18.htm ), you'd use protected. So, I think
that it's pretty clear that there are times when protected is very useful.
- Jonathan M Davis
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