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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jimad
- From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
- Subject: Re: static members in derived classes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.193910.2030@microsoft.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:39:10 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec14.215407.21631@microsoft.com> <5387@holden.lulea.trab.se>
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- In article <5387@holden.lulea.trab.se> jbn@lulea.trab.se (Johan Bengtsson) writes:
- |I like "virtual static", and I do not need the vtbls to back me up.
- |It is more a question of orthogonality and removal of an exception
- |to language rules.
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- As if orthogonality were a goal of C++ ? ;-)
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- In any case, I don't see where adding "virtual static" makes things
- orthogonal. It simply adds a third special case meaning to "virtual."
- There would remain many different cases of functions and objects of
- various storage classes that still couldn't be use "orthogonally" along
- with the "virtual" keyword.
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