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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Subject: Re: Controlled types as interfaces
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:50:58 +0300
Date: 2014-08-20T15:50:58+03:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lt25jf$m32$2@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17zg1do470nci.15209dgoz3ktk.dlg@40tude.net

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>> A similar thing can be made with Root_Stream_Type making it derived from
>> Root_Stream_Interface interface.
> 
> Yes, of course. It was proposed multiple times, as I remember. But
> rejected as "not backward compatible." Though the compatibility issue was
> quite minor if any.

We can make Root_Stream_Type a descendant of Root_Stream_Interface.

So old code can derive from Root_Stream_Type and this is backward 
compatible.

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-20  1:05 Controlled types as interfaces Victor Porton
2014-08-20  1:09 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-20  7:29   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-20 12:49     ` Victor Porton
2014-08-20 13:47       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-21 23:16         ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-29 15:01           ` Robert A Duff
2014-08-29 23:54             ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-20 12:50     ` Victor Porton [this message]
2014-08-20 13:38       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-20 13:56       ` Brad Moore
2014-08-21 22:48         ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-20  1:41 ` Victor Porton
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