From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:45:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*
Message-ID: <e5bfff550709230745m43ad32dh261edc6fc846602a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0709231018450.32185@xanadu.home>

On 9/23/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> You must have misunderstood.  Why?  The linux kernel is itself very
> heavily "object oriented" already, even if it is written in C.  You
> don't need C++ for that.
>

Yes it's true, you don't need it. Object oriented in C is achived
using function pointers.

In C you fill a struct of function pointers with proper values instead
of inherithing from an (abstract) base class as you would do in C++.
The results are more or less the same modulo some type safe.


Marco