Broken?

Dicebot public at dicebot.lv
Tue Mar 11 14:28:58 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 21:24:22 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Dicebot:
>
>> Not in 2.065
>> 2.066  will introduce "virtual" keyword
>> 2.067+ will change the defaults if it will still be considered 
>> good idea
>
> What's the point of having "virtual" if the default doesn't 
> change?
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

frequently mentioned example:

class Something
{
     final: // want all to be final by default

     // ...

     virtual void foo() {} // but this one function
}

I think just keeping "virtual" but not changing defaults is a 
good practical compromise.


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