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  2. From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  4. Subject: Re: Is RTTI required if polymorphic constructor exists
  5. Date: 15 Apr 1996 09:36:42 PDT
  6. Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
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  18. satrajit@iscs.nus.sg (Satrajit Sujit Ghosh) writes:
  19.  
  20. >    If a polymorphic constructor can be created as demonstrated below, 
  21. >is RTTI really necessary, considering that it does not really provide a 
  22. >great deal of information.
  23.  
  24. No, RTTI is not really necessary.  `if', `while', and `for' are not
  25. really necessary either, because you can just use `goto'.  Like many
  26. other things, RTTI is not strictly necessary, but convenient.
  27.  
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