Patrick Lam wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Mike Nordell wrote:
>
> > Btw, I'd _really_ like to see you trying to explain that
> > "every function is virtual" in Java comes "for free". ;->
>
> It does.
No it doesn't. If it did, why would you contradict yourself with the
following?
> In the (overwhelmingly most) common case, Java virtual function
> calls only actually invoke one method.
Common case or not, it's not free. Polymorphic functions by their very
nature comes with a price.
> A little bloat is OK if you get something from it.
I hope I have proved that we can get the same functionality without that
bloat.
/Mike - feeling quite frustrated, and please don't cc
