package and virtual

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Mar 1 12:19:04 PST 2012


On 2012-03-01 14:43, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 3/1/2012 4:26 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-03-01 01:53, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> package functions are currenly non-virtual.
>>>
>>> The spec claims that "all non-sta­tic non-pri­vate non-tem­plate
>>> mem­ber func­
>>> tions are vir­tual," which would mean that package is supposed to be
>>> virtual.
>>> But from what I recall, the plan is to leave package as non-virtual.
>>> So, is
>>> that indeed the case and the spec needs to be fixed, or is package
>>> going to be
>>> made virtual at some point?
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> Is anyone even using "package"? I've basically never used it.
>>
>
> I use it. Primarily for utility declarations shared among modules, but
> not intended for the outside world. For example, DerelictGL's extension
> loader. Incidentally, before reading this I just finished refactoring
> another project to use some package-protected stuff. But I've never had
> a need (yet) to override anything with package protection outside of the
> same module.

I see, I see. I guess it's more used in Java because it's the default.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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