Re: Future of C++

From:

Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.almeida@gmail.com>

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Date:

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 05:01:12 CST

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On Aug 6, 4:47 pm, Jiang <goo.mai...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Aug 6, 11:25 pm, Felipe Magno de Almeida

[snip]

I even found a virtual member function for some bases which
returned std::type_info. They were overriden in the derived
class.

IIRC, std::type_info is used only in OgreAny (AnyCast).
And I do not see how this example support your above
statement.

It is been like two years ago. The code was something like this:

struct base
{
   virtual std::type_info& get_type() const = 0;
};

struct derived1
{
   std::type_info& get_type() const { return typeid(*this); }
};

struct derived2
{
   std::type_info& get_type() const { return typeid(*this); }
};

I couldn't help but laugh. Whoever wrote that didn't even
knew how typeid works.

After laughing at others, please check Boost.Any or any
other any_cast variants to make sure you understand
how typeid works.

I know very well how boost.any works and I don't know
what it has to do with what I wrote.

What I see is, well, they know C++ better than you. :-)

That's probably the case for some of them.

Jiang

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