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From: comeau@ditka.Chicago.COM (Greg Comeau)
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Subject: Re: C++
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Date: 15 Apr 91 06:17:45 GMT
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In article <50511@nigel.ee.udel.edu> jleonard@pica.army.mil writes:
>In article <7257@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> mr3@ukc.ac.uk (M.Rizzo) writes:
> 
>>[in C++] member functions of different classes can have the same name (which 
>...All you have to do is use structures containing your classes data and member
>function pointers.  This way you can give the function a name in the structure 

One can most certainly emulate many of C++ features in C.
That misses the point though.

The goal is to strive for a natural an integration as possible.  Your
C solution does not do that.  The C++ way is "just there" and simple
to use.  So long as the C++ way is like that and available, seems the
slight of hand C alternative is greatly inferior.


- Greg
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