Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond

From	Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond
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Date	2017-11-25 17:13 +0000
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Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> writes:

> On 11/24/17 9:36 PM, bartc wrote:
>> I noticed that 'for (auto x:a)' didn't work on such an array (it
>> gave some interesting error messages), so I guess a few more things
>> need to be added to make it a drop-in replacement for a normal
>> array<>.
>
> That points out a second problem with this implemention, if the
> derivation from std::array had be public, this should have
> worked. Keeping it the default private means the new class needs to
> forward ALL of the member functions to keep full functionality.

That's definitely a case for public inheritance, but there's also a case
against it - mainly that std::array<> has a non-virtual destructor.

Personally, I'd use composition over either type of inheritance, just as
a general principle.

The generated code won't differ much in any of the cases.

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  Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-11-19 20:41 +0000
    Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-11-19 23:12 +0100
      Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-11-19 22:37 +0000
        Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-11-19 23:52 +0100
          Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-11-20 11:18 +0000
            Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-11-20 12:34 +0100
              Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-11-20 03:56 -0800
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                Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-11-20 05:19 -0800
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                Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-11-20 11:33 -0800
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                Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-11-23 18:16 +0000
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                Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-11-22 13:40 -0800
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                Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2017-11-24 13:32 -0500
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