What's about virtual?

[Timon Gehr]

On 09/10/2013 01:46 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 09/10/2013 02:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> After I've seen a pretty cool demo of clang-modernize
>> (http://clang.llvm.org/extra/ModernizerUsage.html), I think the best way
>> to attack this and similar problems is to add a class hierarchy
>> analyzer: a command-line utility that is fed an entire project and adds
>> as many 'final' as possible without changing semantics.
>>
>> Time has come to migrate such functionality to tools. We keep on telling
>> that "nobody uses the tools" but it seems experience contradicts that
>> belief.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>
> This is of course a valid possibility, but if this kind of tooling is
> available, making the change becomes a rather trivial issue in the first
> place, since old code can just be fixed up automatically.

(None of this is closely related to the OT though.)