Re: Function overloading for ObjC classes
Re: Function overloading for ObjC classes
- Subject: Re: Function overloading for ObjC classes
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:40:24 -0500
On Feb 22, 2004, at 1:25 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
C++ has both typeid, dynamic_cast and RTTI (run-time type information)
-- but function overloading does serve many useful purposes -- mostly
related to generic programming, something absent from Cocoa, despite
its OO features ;)
Generic programming and object-oriented programming are different
things. Objects with common interfaces can be used in many of the same
ways templates are in generic programming, but they're not the same
technique.
-- Chris
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