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Not everything is a nail...

Posted Jan 22, 2011 0:52 UTC (Sat) by jmm82 (guest, #59425)
In reply to: Not everything is a nail... by daglwn
Parent article: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

The VFS already has an inheritance model in c, it is called function pointers.


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Not everything is a nail...

Posted Jan 22, 2011 1:25 UTC (Sat) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432) [Link]

Which is, of course, my whole point. Why go through the pain and bugs involved with function pointers when the compiler will generate it for you? It baffles me why anyone who advocates using tools to automate tasks (i.e. anyone who writes code) would abandon that principe at some arbitrary level of the development stack.

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