Re: Avoid nested "if's"?
On 2007-05-11 16:00, desktop wrote:
James Kanze wrote:
On May 10, 7:52 pm, desktop <f...@sss.com> wrote:
[snip]
It seems a bit unpractical to implement the visit functionality in the
Bob's so maybe a nested switch is still the best solution for a large
number of objects.
Double dispatch works on types, not on objects. It's the number
of types and of distinct actions which counts.
But each of my objects are instansiated from class. As I have learned
creating a new class is the same as creating a new type. So in my case
if I have 100 different objects I also have 100 classes = 100 types. Its
these 100 different classes that I make the double dispatch over.
Yes, but an object is not a class, an object is an instance of a class
and all instances of a specific class have the same type (namely the class).
Consider the following:
// Declare a class Foo
class Foo {
int i;
public:
Foo(int i_) :i(i_) {}
};
// Create a vector storing objects of type Foo
std::vector<Foo> foos;
// Create 100 Foo-objects
for (int i = 0; i < 100; ++i)
foos.push_back(Foo(i));
Here I have 1 class (Foo) which is the same as having one type, but I
have 100 distinct objects, all instances of the Foo class.
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