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From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Internationalization [was Re: Printing plural
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Date: 1 Mar 91 06:49:21 GMT
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In article  <1991Feb28.171836.29342@linus.mitre.org> Ralph Marshall 617 271-8784 writes:
]gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
]>...
]>What does this have to do with having a "real object system"?  You can
]>write different printing routines for different data types in almost
]>any language.
]
]Maybe I don't understand you, but how do you do this in C?

Simple.  Every time you define a data type, also write a procedure to
print it -- just like you would do in a so-called object oriented
language.

Of course this doesn't give you runtime typing.  But runtime typing
(or runtime polymorphism) is orthogonal to object orientation.
--
					David Gudeman
gudeman@cs.arizona.edu
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