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- From: greg@ms.cs.wm.edu (Gregory S. Miller)
- Subject: The Golden Rule. . .
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.204417.4850@cs.wm.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:44:17 GMT
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- Recently, I posted an article asking for advice on the use of
- constructors and pointers in OOPascal.
-
- I received a number of replies, mostly of the ". . . Have you forgotten
- this? . . .") variety. I would like to thank everyone who sent a helpful
- reply of this nature. The answer is -- I did everything correctly. I made
- a small logic error in a function returning an object to a pointer, and didn't
- bother to double-check it. As a result, I made the incorrect virtual method
- call correctly.
-
- But a reply was posted to the net, intimating that I was somehow incapable of
- rational thought, or of understanding the issues involved in object-oriented
- programming.
-
- Wrong.
-
- Before you flame someone for the "stupidity" of their question, remember that
- you might have a question someday, too. And somebody, somewhere, is going to
- find it stupid.
-
- And I'm sure that you would be offended by their response, just as I was by
- the one posted on this newsgroup.
-
- Thank you,
- Greg
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-