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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1997/02/17
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Sam said

<<...we would expect the sizeof( Four ) to be 12. Instead, it most
likely contains a single pointer to a table of function pointers,
which are shared by all the instances of the class:>>

I don't know who "we" is here, but I can't see anyone expecting this,
your "instead" is the obvious implementation, and it would surprise
me (though certainly not be invalid) if a C++ implementation did
anything else!