From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,5394d9ca5f955366 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Subject: Re: pointers & OOP Date: 1999/05/11 Message-ID: <7h8v9l$dm4$1@wanadoo.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 476523592 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <$DL10CAsSgL3Iwj3@jr-and-assoc.demon.co.uk> <7gn7gr$fr5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7gq27t$vnd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7gv70i$id6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7h7h9a$jdf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 926417013 14020 164.138.108.174 (11 May 1999 10:03:33 GMT) Organization: Adalog Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 May 1999 10:03:33 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-11T10:03:33+00:00 List-Id: dennison@telepath.com a �crit dans le message <7h7h9a$jdf$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >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? > OK. A good example of a collection is an heterogenous file (thanks to streams). You can read the data and then dispatch to process them depending on their specific types. Where do you see pointers ? --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/adalog