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Subject: Re: [boost] Review of a safer memory management approach for
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-07 05:34:19


Le 04/06/2010 19:13, Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:

> Even so there are so many bad things about virtual functions and inheritance (let alone multiple inheritance) and so little benefit in most cases that it is a bizarre accident of academic language development and instruction that OO is such a dominant design style.

I believe that in the pure form of OO, all functions are multimethods.
This basically makes it work like overloading, except it's dynamically
typed.


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