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From: Jean-Marc Bourguet <bourguet@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.
Date: 2000/03/29
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In article <aBfE4.2740$AW1.181200@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"James S. Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> The approach of a manually constructed dispatching table is valid in
> either C++ or Ada. The reason it is used in C++ is that he is not
> really using virtual functions there either.

With what I've seen from the code, I can't tell he doesn't want virtual
functions. A pointer to member function is able to trigger what in Ada
we'd name a dispatching call.

-- Jean-Marc


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