OpenEuphoria

Re: SS

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jan 09, 2007
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> In a related vein, for 'true' OOP, you really need late binding, which 
> basically means virtual functions.  I think this is very doable for ooeu.
I'm pretty sure you are talking about precisely the stuff I "don't get".
Erm...
> }}}
<eucode>
> euclass person( sequence p )
>     sequence name
>     virtual procedure print_name()
>     end procedure
> end euclass person
umm...
> for i = 1 to length(people) do
>     people[i].print_name()
> end for
Youch! That kinda means that an integer has to have a virtual function of the
same name... ??

> backend issues).  However, I don't see a problem with the sort of thing
> I've done with ooeu.
Speaking of which, do you have any sort of design doc about ooeu's pbr?

Pete
PS is that what "virtual" actually means, ie "late binding"?