RFC: New C++ Attribute: final

[George Garvey]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:57:21PM -0800, Matt Austern wrote:
> My opinion is that this would be better sent to the C++ standards
> committee than to the gcc mailing list.  That is: I would be much

   I believe some of the GCC people are on that committee, although I could
be wrong. Do they get smarter when they attend committee meetings? I always
noticed the opposite effect, myself. But I've never been at a standard
committee.
	The real issue is that it should be done completely, and specified,
which unfortunately has apparently not always been the case with GCC
extensions; so now everyone seems burnt out with them. I'm not giving an
opinion on whether this should be put in GCC. But this particular argument
doesn't make sense.
   It seems like there are some people working on GCC who could design
something like this quite competently. Whether they will, or want to, is
another thing, of course, which is none of my business.