Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:54:14 -0700
On Monday, 13 April 2026 06:04:08 Pacific Daylight Time Marcin Jaczewski via
Std-Proposals wrote:
> But if `print_name` was a more complicated function, like 50 lines?
> you would duplicate it too?
> It could be that calling current `print_name` was an implicit
> requirement, but thinking out of the box sometimes is the right thing.
Make the print_name(Animal) "base" implementation a template, which the two
concrete functions call at their appropriate points.
Std-Proposals wrote:
> But if `print_name` was a more complicated function, like 50 lines?
> you would duplicate it too?
> It could be that calling current `print_name` was an implicit
> requirement, but thinking out of the box sometimes is the right thing.
Make the print_name(Animal) "base" implementation a template, which the two
concrete functions call at their appropriate points.
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Received on 2026-04-13 14:54:18