On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Michael Neumann wrote: > It's actually no new paradigm. It's already used everywhere. A lot of > Unix APIs *are* object oriented (e.g. files). Take a look at drivers or > the VFS, they all use "methods" and even inheritance.
Possibly the biggest potential win from C++ would not necessarily be inheritance or templating (there's a lot of machinery to fill in to supply custom allocators, etc), but RAII for common lock management operations. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Donate a signature: http://ioctl.org/jan/sig-submit
