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From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: HandleObjects in C++
Message-ID: <1515@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 19:25:52 GMT
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References: <16898@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <3158@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
> Without getting into an insanely complicated (and somewhat irrelevant)
> description of object dispatches... The dispatch mechanism used for
> supporting multiple inheritance is incompatible with the relocatable-block
> structure of the Mac memory manager.


From article <16898@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, by erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel):
> I'm perfectly happy to accept that, but I am curious.. is this is _permanent_
> incompatibility, or might it be fixed someday?

Rich overstates the case a bit: the multiple-inheritance scheme CURRENTLY
USED by MPW C++ doesn't support handle-based objects.  There's no good reason
that this MUST be the case.  Start complaining now...

=Ned Horvath=