Broken?

[Steve Teale]

On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 22:24:15 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 3/11/2014 2:42 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
>>
>> Well if we're going there, we should go the whole hog and have 
>> final,
>> direct, and virtual.
>
> Pardon my ignorance: What's 'direct'?
>
> > It's a system programming language, so you should
>> be able to walk down the street naked as long as you are 
>> prepared to put
>> up with the consequences.
>
> There has been much debate in the programming community over 
> what exactly "system programming language" means. I think you, 
> sir, have found the winner! Gets my vote, anyway! :)

What I meant by final is simply the third leg of a tuffet. As I 
understand it, final means called directly, and you can't 
override, virtual means called through the vtable and you can 
override, direct means called directly, but you can override 
(hide) in a derived class, like if you define a method with the 
same signature in a derived class in C++ when the base class 
method is not marked as virtual.

I tried that with G++ the other day, and it still seems to 
compile.

There may be other possibilities, I have not attempted to draw 
the matrix table.

Steve