On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 1. How important is inheritance in the eyes of people here? > > I personally like some sort of inheritance in terms of > > 1) having some sort of objects > > 2) having the ability to extend the objects
To what degree does record polymorphism address this sufficiently? The main difference between record polymorphism and inheritance is the possibility of virtual functions. >> 2. Can anybody identify an "acceptable cost" strategy for transcoding C++ to >> BitC without it? > > It depends heavily on the codebase you work with.... I asked the question badly. The goal is to be able to transcode as much existing C++ code as possible, without regard to idiom. > > 3. Can anybody identify a sensible way to interoperate effectively with the > > Common Type System without single inheritance? > > There is alternate approach to "inheritance" - querying the interface > of the object. You can either associate objects and interfaces in some > way or you can just check that the method(s) you want to call exist at > the appropriate arity. I believe that this relies on runtime reflection, which is definitely an interface we do not want to be dealing with. shap _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
