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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: asking an object for its type
Message-ID: <27E8E986.2ED0@tct.uucp>
Date: 21 Mar 91 17:12:37 GMT
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Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin):
>Unfortunately, when using class libraries you are at the mercy of the
>[naming style] used by the class implementor.

Exactly.  That's why a protocol match function would have exactly zero
value in portable C++ programming.
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Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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