Re: [boost] [Review] GGL review starts today, November 5th

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] GGL review starts today, November 5th
From: Patrick Horgan (phorgan1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-22 19:50:16

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> FWIW, non-virtual destructors are the norm in Boost.
> I strongly dislike the idea of having a policy enabling
> virtual destructors.
Steven, could you tell me the reason for this?  I have always thought 
that if you had virtual methods, you should have a virtual destructor 
since the derived class has something different about it and if being 
destructed via a reference or pointer to base, the wrong thing could 
happen without a virtual destructor!  Educate me please.  I've never 
heard of any reason to avoid a virtual destructor if you already had 
virtual methods.  Obviously I'm missing something about something I 
thought I understood.

Patrick