Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!vaughan@mcc.com From: vaughan@mcc.com (Paul Vaughan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Re^2: Is there a way to tell which derived class an object belongs to? Message-ID: <5854@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> Date: 5 Feb 90 15:45:34 GMT References: <2815@draken.nada.kth.se> <636@tci.bell-atl.com> <7722@chaph.usc.edu> <645@tci.bell-atl.com> <133@dumbcat.UUCP> <3062@pur-phy> Sender: news@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM Reply-To: vaughan@mcc.com (Paul Vaughan) Organization: MCC VLSI CAD Program Lines: 9 In-reply-to: sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) The NIHL library implements a dynamic type facility that overcomes the difficulties that have been discussed here. It's free, it's good, it's debugged. All you've got to do is get it and use it. It probably does more than you want it to, but you can tear it apart if you wish. Sorry I'm not including a pointer to where it is--I can't find it at the moment. Paul Vaughan, MCC CAD Program | ARPA: vaughan@mcc.com | Phone: [512] 338-3639 Box 200195, Austin, TX 78720 | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!vaughan