What's the Practical usage of new (modifier) functions?
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I think you are talking about C#. Do rephrase to indicate the language. – Naveen Jul 07 '09 at 09:04
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Here's my article on the subject. http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2008/05/21/method-hiding-apologia.aspx – Eric Lippert Jul 07 '09 at 15:05
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It's an attempt to work around an aspect of the fragile base class problem.
Pete Kirkham
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The new modifier in C# allows you to redefine a method in a subclass hiding the base class method.
I would mainly use it for modifying a non-virtual method in a subclass.
Patrick McDonald
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The use of new is when you want a function of the same name, but you don't want to override. It is identical to the reintroduce keyword in Delphi.
James
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