From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: pointers & OOP
Date: 1999/05/10
Date: 1999-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7h7h9a$jdf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.10.9905071853210.1885-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905071853210.1885-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 1999 dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> > typical facets of OOP can be accomplished in Ada83 using minor
tricks. So if
> > you are going to use Ada95 to do things you just couldn't do Ada83,
you are
> > typically going to be using pointers.
>
> But you don't need pointers to classwide types to get dynamic
dispatch.
>
True. But as far as I have seen you don't *need* dynamic dispatch if you
aren't using a collection. The only other use for it I can see is to
redispatch out of a classwide operation, but I have yet to need that. Is
there something I'm missing?
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-01 0:00 pointers & OOP Matthew Heaney
1999-05-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-05-05 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-05 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-10 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-05-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-10 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-14 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-08 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-06 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-10 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-05-06 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-08 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-05-10 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Francois Godme
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1999-05-01 0:00 Tom Moran
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