Classes or stucts :: Newbie

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On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:11:49 -0800
Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> Now, you could conceivably have a language where all of its objects were 
> actually pointers, but they were treated as value types. So,
> 
> B b;
> A a = b;
> 
> would actually be declaring
> 
> B* b;
> A* a = b;
> 
> underneath the hood, except that the assignment would do a deep copy and 
> allocate the appropriate meemory rather than just copying the pointer like would 
> happen in a language like C++ or D. Perhaps that's what Oberon does. I have no 
> idea. I have never heard of the language before, let alone used it.

I don't know how Oberon works. But I'm sure that its records are plain values, _not_ "pointed" under the hood. And their methods all are virtual (they have a virtual method table). I have no more details, sorry.

Denis
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