Re: What's so great about dynamic binding?

spitzak@girtab.usc.edu (William Spitzak) writes:


>... I was able to eliminate even that virtual function. The big
>loss here is that every sub class needed a constructor to fill in that field
>with the correct pointer (the sort of thing we need better languages to
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>automate), but I quite successfully fully duplicated the function of the
  ^^^^^^^^
This is exactly what C++ *does* automate! All C++ virtual just get translated
into C pointers-to-functions -- why do it manually when the language does it
for you?!
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Mark Lanett mlanett@uiuc.edu
Software Tools Group, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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