[rramadass]

Your comment comes across as insincere. It reads like you have realized the triviality involved but not admitting it and still arguing that somehow programming discipline is not enough in this case (do we really need to talk about how to specify grep patterns?).

I should have probably said something like "override is just a compiler crutch for lazy programmers who can't be bothered to be careful in their job" but i thought it might get me banned from HN :-)

>It is you who presented that as facts without any kind of evidence in the first place.

My comments just in this whole thread refute your above statement.

>But I have used it enough to identify one of your top posts as emotional and non-factual.

I don't think you have understood the motivations behind the features you claim to have used, how they were solved earlier without those features and properly judging whether the change was worth it.