From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: pointers & OOP
Date: 1999/05/11
Date: 1999-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 7h8v9l$dm4$1@wanadoo.fr
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In article <7h8v9l$dm4$1@wanadoo.fr>,
"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> dennison@telepath.com a �crit dans le message
> <7h7h9a$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 ?
Hmm. Yes, you have a point there. I would point out that it seems silly
to use streams for the sole purpose of implementing a collection, except
that I did just that a couple months ago...
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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
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-05-11 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
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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