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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Books: Comments and Recommendations, WANTED
Message-ID: <58466@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 90 22:21:30 GMT
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In article <8410004@hpopd.HP.COM> ajp@hpopd.HP.COM (Andy Pearce) writes:
|jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) responds ...
|
||Two other books of general interest, not restricting themselves to C++
||[and in fact, their C++ examples have problems] are:
||
||Booth "Object Oriented Design"
||
||covering design methodologies for object oriented programming, and
|
|I haven't seen this one, although I am reading a book by Grady Booch on
|the same subject.  If this is the book you mean, can you tell us what
|problems you see with C++ in the examples?

Booch claims his mistakes are corrected in the second printing, so you
may look to see what printing your copy is.  On first printings both books
had the same problem with their examples:  member functions that were suppose
to be polymorphic accepted parameters declared as pass-by-value, rather than
pass-by-reference.  This leads to the well known "slicing problem" were 
any additional members defined in derived classes are not copied across the
interface, but rather are "sliced off" the end of the object.

[ A smart C++ compiler would always issue a warning when an object with 
 virtual functions is passed-by-value ]

||Khashafian and Abnous "Object Orientation...."
||
||which is an excellent OOP survey book, and also the place to read for issues
||of identity, persistence, databases, etc...
|
|This looks interesting.  Do you have the full title, or ISBN ?

"Object Orientation: concepts, languages, databases, user interfaces"
Setrag Khoshafian & Razmik Abnous
John Wiley & Sons 1990
ISBN 0-471-51802-6
ISBN 0-471-51801-8 (pbk)
433 pages, $29.95