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From: dan.r.mcleran@seagate.com (Dan McLeran)
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Subject: Re: Pass by reference
Date: 9 Apr 2004 12:09:18 -0700
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> This need not to be tagged, because there is no dispatching subroutines
> here. A rough C++ equivalent of a tagged type is a class with virtual
> functions.

Quite right. This is a better example:

struct Silly
{
    virtual int Get()
    {
        return i;
    }
private:
    int i;
};