On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Remco Poelstra <re...@beryllium.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've a class that represents a general piece of hardware. Subclasses of
> that class represent more specific versions of that hardware. When I scan
> the network for hardware, I first only know some basic properties of the
> hardware and only after some more queries I'll know all details. I thought
> it would be a good thing to instantiate from the base class when I detect
> the hardware and then change the class to a more specific class as I find
> out more about the hardware.
> But how do I change a class? I know about the ISA pointer, but changing it
> doesn't allocate any additional variables.
> What would be a nice solution to this problem?
>
>
Maybe a class cluster would be useful here?
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