teaching OO

[Gabriel Zachmann]

>  I don't think virtual classes (as in inheriting from base classes
>  "virtually" to avoid a certain multiple inheritance problems) is all
>  that important in this single inheritance favouring world.

ah, sorry, i meant "classes with virtual methods" (i.e., classes that have
RTTI).

>  The concept of overloading is easy, you can go one step further by
>  introducing generic functions / multimethods through one of the
>  modules floating around the net.

You mean in Python? (or C++)
Could you give me a pointer to one of those modules?

TIA,
Gab.


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