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- From: ort@netcom.com (David Oertel)
- Subject: Re: Discriminating Variant Records Without switch() ??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.181913.13491@netcom.com>
- Summary: Re: discrimination variant records without switch()
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- References: <BAB.92Nov10073324@se39.wg2.waii.com> <BAB.92Nov11075454@se39.wg2.waii.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:19:13 GMT
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- >From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
- >Since the set of operations is not common, we need to know the type of the
- >object before proceeding with processing. Have we painted ourselves
- >into a corner? It seems that we need a switch() to do this, but in a
- >proper OOP design, it shouldn't be necessary.
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- Isn't the proper way to move objects around is to stuff them into an
- OODBMS? Or is this technology not really there yet?
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