Proposing the removal of virtual_hooks (or how you can add a virtual method without using "virtual")

[Lubos Lunak]

On Saturday 04 March 2006 12:44, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> Le Samedi 4 Mars 2006 12:18, Thiago Macieira a écrit :
> > I'd like to propose a change of policy in the KDE libraries: remove all
> > virtual_hook functions from QObject-derived classes.

 Fine with me.

>
> I agree.
> If we want to add a virtual function, the workaround using signals/slots is
> more intuitive that the one with virtual_hook

 Is it :) ? Well, I'd say that they're both pretty ugly (and I'm the author of 
both), but it'd be naive to expect ugly hacks not to be ugly, wouldn't it?

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