JavaScript: Overriding alert()

It’s definitely “supported”. It is your web page, you do whatever you want to with it. I already did this to track analytics events without modifying a library but by sneaking into events. Use the proxy pattern: (function(proxied) { window.alert = function() { // do something here return proxied.apply(this, arguments); }; })(window.alert); You can also … Read more

In Python, how do I indicate I’m overriding a method?

Based on this and fwc:s answer I created a pip installable package https://github.com/mkorpela/overrides From time to time I end up here looking at this question. Mainly this happens after (again) seeing the same bug in our code base: Someone has forgotten some “interface” implementing class while renaming a method in the “interface”.. Well Python ain’t … Read more

Why does an overridden function in the derived class hide other overloads of the base class?

Judging by the wording of your question (you used the word “hide”), you already know what is going on here. The phenomenon is called “name hiding”. For some reason, every time someone asks a question about why name hiding happens, people who respond either say that this called “name hiding” and explain how it works … Read more

Calling virtual functions inside constructors

Calling virtual functions from a constructor or destructor is dangerous and should be avoided whenever possible. All C++ implementations should call the version of the function defined at the level of the hierarchy in the current constructor and no further. The C++ FAQ Lite covers this in section 23.7 in pretty good detail. I suggest … Read more

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