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Re: Conditional final class-virt-specifier

From: Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:01:47 +0300
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 11:57, Paweł Benetkiewicz via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > So the basic question "why is this worth having?" is not answered by the proposal.
> The Proposal is worth having, because it does "heavily increase compatibility correctness by inheritance constraints" by providing an ability to encapsulate interfaces. [Note: See Examples section of proposal. — end note]

I can already do what this proposal proposes. There are existing ways
in C++ to reach the same goal, so
the proposal should explain why those ways are inadequate, and why an
extension is necessary.

Received on 2020-07-14 04:05:16