Re: Idiots
Leigh Johnston wrote:
"Jerry Coffin" <jerryvcoffin@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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You're conflating two rather different things here. At least as far
as I've seen, nobody has said interface augmentation, as a basic
idea, is particularly wrong. What I've seen people say is that the
standard container classes don't have (for an obvious example)
virtual destructors, so public inheritance from them must be handled
with care that's so extreme that you're frequently better off
considering other options.
std::iterator is meant to be derived from and it does not have a virtual
destructor.
std::iterator is not a *standard container class*, so this does not
respond to the assertion made in the text you quoted. Nevertheless:
Not having a virtual destructor does not preclude
inheritance.
Of course not. But there's no reason whatsoever for someone to want to
create a pointer to an std::iterator object, since it has no member
functions and no data. So there is no danger of deleting an object of a
derived type through a pointer to that base.
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Pete
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"The Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference"
(www.petebecker.com/tr1book)
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