DIP3 - Remove inheritance protection

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 11 22:24:11 PDT 2009


I meant that more as a "don't feel you can't edit it because you're not the
author of it" or that I owned the idea.  I'll be happy to update it as needed.

Jason House wrote:
> if you don't plan on owning the DIP, why did you write it up? Any half-hearted proposal is doomed to failure.
> 
> Brad Roberts Wrote:
> 
>> For grins (and to see how well this process might work), I lifted a bugzilla
>> issue (177) into a DIP:
>>
>>    http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP3
>>
>> It's a suggestion to remove a feature that several consider to be of little if
>> any value.  Obviously it's something that can fall into the category of "Doctor,
>> it hurts when I do this.  Well, don't do it."  But a feature you shouldn't use
>> is a feature that shouldn't exist, no?
>>
>> Also, in some ways it's similar to the suggestion to remove .5 as a valid float.
>>  I really don't want the excuse 'it exists already' to be considered a valid
>> reason to keep a feature.
>>
>> Please feel free to update the DIP based on discussion in the NG.  I do NOT
>> consider myself the owner of the DIP.
>>
>> Later,
>> Brad




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