Christopher Smith wrote:
C++ uses static dispatch by default, doesn't it? If you write a C++
program and never define a virtual function, is your code necessarily
not OO then?
Yes.
/me falls out of chair.
Sorry, just not the case.
Funny that you mention Alan Kay below, as dynamic dispatch/late binding
is one of the two or three properties he says make up "object oriented".
(Depending on which interview you read, it's 2 or 3 properties...)
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