Implementation Advice

[phil hunt]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:28:10 -0800, Ken <khirmint at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hey everyone..
>
>I'm trying to create a system where users log in, and based on how they log
>in or who they log in as, they get a different set of functionality.
>
>A really simple example would be a multi-room chat, where each room has some
>common functionality (ie.send/receive messages) and some extras like
>different color text.
>
>I'd like to keep the functionality for each room in a separate file.
>
>My question is, should each file have a class declaration (using inheritance
>where appropriate) containing the necessary additional functions,
>initialization, etc.. Or, should each file contain a series of functions?
>One common to all files to initialize a room and then modify it and add
>functions to it as necessary?

I'd use classes.

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