Re: (OT) Re: memory management

[Pierre Phaneuf <pp@ludusdesign.com>]

Keith Lucas wrote:

> { The most easily recognisable problem is what happens if you change the
> definition of Object... everything needs recompiling... }

That's C++ for you! Some would think that Smalltalk and Java cheat at
this (you can change a parent class without recompiling the childrens)
by being partly interpreted, but ObjC does it too and its compiled, so
(to borrow some of my Quadra non-customers) C++ must be broken. :-)

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