private vs protected in Interfaces

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 08/15/2010 04:01 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>
>>> It would not be good to be unable to do NVI.
>>
>> I am not saying that it should not be supported; but...
>>
>> I've used NVI a number of times myself until I was convinced by Kevlin
>> Henney that it was "a solution in search of a problem" during one of his
>> many excellent presentations at the Silicon Valley ACCU:
>>
>> http://www.accu-usa.org/Slides/ACriticalViewOfCppPractices.pdf
> 
> Interesting. I think Kevlin is an outstanding designer, and I agree with 
> him that applying NVI as a convention in languages that have little 
> support for it is tenouos.
> 
> I disagree with a few points his slides make, and am informing him of 
> this discussion to allow him to chime in if he wants.
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Just got word from Kevlin that he's on vacation with family, so he won't 
reply to this anytime soon.

Andrei