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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Other programming languages (Was: Command line globber/tokenizer
 library for C?)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:31:06 +0200
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On 13.09.2024 04:58, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 04:06:58 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> 
>> On 13.09.2024 00:32, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:40:17 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>>>
>>>> A lot of early C++ programs I've seen were just, umm, "enhanced" "C"
>>>> programs.
>>>
>>> Given that C++ makes “virtual” optional instead of standard behaviour,
>>> I’d say that C++ is in fact designed to be used that way.
>>
>> There's different semantics with and without a 'virtual' specification.
> 
> Precisely. And consider what the meaning of a non-virtual destructor is: 
> it is essentially always the wrong thing to do.

I've used both design patterns depending on what I intended,
so I cannot say that one would be "wrong" in any way.

(Upthread I seem to have rightly sensed that this might lead
to a "right/wrong" ("real" OO) sort of discussion. I abstain.)

Janis