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From: aed@netcom.COM (Andrew Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: asking an object for its type
Message-ID: <23984@netcom.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 91 04:43:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest}
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Here is my problem, I have some processing that only applies for
certain types of objects. If an object is not of the correct type I
want to do some error stuff.

The problem is how do I fiqure out what the type of the object is. I
could return a string, ie provide an istype member function but then the calling function would have to
know what the string is in advance, It also wont work with inheritance

Thanks Andy
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