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From: pat@megatest.UUCP (Patrick Powers)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: OO Design with "C" - Do we still get benefits
Message-ID: <16423@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 91 21:50:46 GMT
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Reply-To: pat@megatest.UUCP (Patrick Powers)
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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I've been maintaining a C program for which the implementor chose to
implement inheritance himself.  It is very to extremely verbose, and
the pointers to functions are very difficult to trace, much worse
than gotos.

It is possible, even a good idea, to write C code in an object 
oriented style, but inheritance requires compiler support for all
practical purposes.  I'm sure there is some ingenious way to do
it with macros, but if you are going to go that far why not use C++?
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