Re: Warnings about hiding

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Vinzent Hoefler" <nntp-2010-10@t-domaingrabbing.de> wrote in message 
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> JFTR: If you move "Finalize" into the public part, the warning for it
> disappears (just tested with GNAT GPL 2010).
>
> (IMO, there's no point putting it in the private part, the operation
> is already known, anyway.)

My opinion is exactly the reverse: there is no point in putting it in the 
visible part in this case -- it should not matter to clients whether or not 
the subprogram is overridden, so why burden them with it??

That assumes of course that the clients are smart enough (or have good 
tools) which can show them what is actually inherited. In the absense of 
that, you really have to override everything in the public part, whether you 
want to or not, else no one will know that the operations even exist - no 
one can figure out by hand what's inherited. (I vote for good tools. :-)

                                        Randy.