reddit.com: first Chapter of TDPL available for free
Andrei Alexandrescu
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Mon Aug 3 19:53:38 PDT 2009
The Anh Tran wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/975ng/diving_into_the_d_programming_language_tdpl/
>>
>>
>> (Don't tell anyone, but I plan to rewrite it.)
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Typo spotted, sir!
>
> The paragraph before "1.7 Values vs. References":
> "In C++ lingo, member functions are virtual by default. If you prepend
> final to a member function, that prohibits derived classes from
> overriding the function, effectively stopping the virtual mechanism."
>
> It's him, Java!!!!!!
> :)
In fact it's not a typo, it's intentional but the effect is bad: when I
started with "In C++ lingo" I was referring to the meaning of "virtual".
I rewrote the sentence.
Thanks for the feedback, and if anybody has comments about anything
referring to the book, please let me know.
Andrei
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