Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacio...@gmail.com> writes: >> What you've said here is that "without polymorphism, you can't have >> polymorphism". :) > > Respectfully, no. I refer to the distinction between object based and object > oriented programming. Wikipedia's entry is consistent with my understanding > (not to argue by wiki-authority, but the terminology here isn't my personal > invention). > > Your example of "polymorphism in a non OO" language makes my tired head hurt. > Do you have a clean little example of polymorphism being mocked in a > reasonable way with pure C? There are many nice object-based C projects > floating around, but real polymorphism? I think you can't do it without some > bizarre work-arounds, but I'd be happy to be shown otherwise.
The first C++ compilers were just preprocessors that translated into pure C code, which was then compiled with a C compiler. The resulting intermediate C code would be an object-oriented program in C. IIRC, the C code was reasonably clear, not really convoluted, so you would have been able to write it yourself. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
