Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes: > Unfortunately, I had to muck about with the original library's code to > change a couple things from "private" to "protected" to allow me to > extend the class to do what needed to be done. Every time I have to > do anything with C++ (once every handfull of years) it feels like > swimming against the current...
I think this is what's called "the expression problem" and it's a perennial sore point in statically typed PL design. Different languages have different approaches to dealing with it. I'm no C++ expert so I don't know what the gurus would say for your particular situation. But, I do get the impression that PL mavens now tend to think that OO and inheritance was a 1990's thing that didn't work out as well as expected, that Java is a painful wreck because of it, and that C++ culture has moved somewhat away from OO in favor of template-based generics. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
