Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bader+ From: bader+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: WP bug on SPARC, new release version? Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 89 02:24:17 GMT References: <8911220012.AA02790@iris.rand.org> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 Isaac Salzman writes: > i haven't explored the andrew code a whole lot. i do know that andrew uses > (in some places) a classing mechanism. i guess it does not implement any > sort of dynamic binding (aka virtual functions in C++). here's a good case > for using an object system with dynamic binding. you wouldn't need to know > which of the N flavors of an object something is. it's determined at > runtime. just send the DeAllocate message (actually, just "delete" the object > in C++ and the destructors get called automatically).... The "classing mechanism" used by atk ("class") implements ONLY dynamic binding of methods. However, the white pages doesn't use class. -Miles