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From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: C++ not OOP? (Was: Language Efficiency
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Walid Saba (walid@research.att.com) wrote:
: Two fundemental principles of OO are not, and could not be
: supported by C++ unless the language takes on an intensional
: twist:

: 1) you cant re-define the object's structure and/or behavior
:    at run time (many applications would require this)

: 2) you can not change your class heirarchy at run time.
:    (many-many applications would require this!)

Can you give any examples of applications where you would want to do this?
I'm intrigued!

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