On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Bill <bill_nos...@noway.net> wrote: >> Chris Angelico wrote: >>> >>> I don't know about vtables as needing to be in ANY programming course. >>> They're part of a "let's dive into the internals of C++" course. You >>> certainly don't need them to understand how things work in Python, >>> because they don't exist; and I'm doubtful that you need to explain >>> them even to C++ programmers. >>> >> Then how are you going to explain dynamic_cast? >> > > I wouldn't. I'd teach Python to beginning programmers. C++ is not a > good first language.
And even for C++ programners, you can go a pretty long way without dynamic_cast. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
