On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:11:49 -0800 Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Now, you could conceivably have a language where all of its objects were > actually pointers, but they were treated as value types. So, > > B b; > A a = b; > > would actually be declaring > > B* b; > A* a = b; > > underneath the hood, except that the assignment would do a deep copy and > allocate the appropriate meemory rather than just copying the pointer like > would > happen in a language like C++ or D. Perhaps that's what Oberon does. I have > no > idea. I have never heard of the language before, let alone used it. I don't know how Oberon works. But I'm sure that its records are plain values, _not_ "pointed" under the hood. And their methods all are virtual (they have a virtual method table). I have no more details, sorry. Denis -- -- -- -- -- -- -- vit esse estrany ☣ spir.wikidot.com
