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Re: Did I miss something about structures and function handles
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: Did I miss something about structures and function handles |
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Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:38:04 -0400 |
On 18/08/07, James Sherman Jr. <address@hidden> wrote:
> But I don't have a good grasp of what OOP really and truly means, so the 90%
> of OOP comment by kensmith confuses me.
Polymorphism. This is the essence of OOP, and often not emphasised enough.
As kensmith suggests, the "this" pointer in C++ is one way to get
polymorphism working. I can't follow the discussion exactly, but if
indeed Octave has something like C++'s "this" pointer, then we may be
well on the route to having OOP in Octave.
Of course, having Matlab-compatible OOP is probably still quite a
different matter.
- Jordi G. H.