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Re: New "static_virtual" keyword

From: Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:03:40 +0300
On 3/17/21 10:41 PM, Phil Bouchard via Std-Proposals wrote:
> New keyword proposal to allow inheritance at compile-time. Ex:
>
> template <typename T>
>
> struct container
>
> {
>
> static_virtual T * begin() {...}
>
> static_virtual T * end() {...}
>
> static_virtual T * rbegin() {...}
>
> static_virtual T * rend() {...}
>
> };
>
> template <typename T>
>
> struct list : container<T>
>
> {
>
> static_virtual T * begin() {...}
>
> static_virtual T * end() {...}
>
> static_virtual T * rbegin() {...}
>
> static_virtual T * rend() {...}
>
> };
>
> template <typename T>
>
> ostream & ostream(ostream & out, container<T> const & c)
>
> {
>
> for (auto i = c.begin(); i != c.end(); ++ i)
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> out << * i << endl;
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> return out;
>
> }
>
> int main()
>
> {
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> list<int> l;
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> l.push_back(1);
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> l.push_back(2);
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> l.push_back(3);
>
> cout << l << endl;
>
> }

I'm not sure how it is different from the good old virtual.

Received on 2021-03-17 16:03:46