Re: Multiple dispatch problem with swap()
On 23.04.12 18.08, SG wrote:
I think the design is questionable. If you want to protect your
objects from outsiders messing with the subobjects (like the base
class subobject of a Derived object), you generally make this
subobjekt private. Obviously, this rules out public inheritance. Also,
myDerivedObj.swap(myBaseObj); seems very wrong. What are you actually
trying to achieve here?
Base and Derived are relative paths. Derived uses some caching for the
objects in the current path to speed up some operations. This cache is
not useful in all cases.
A pattern is to manipulate local copies of a path and then swap. The
local copies as well as the long lived instances might be of type Base
or Derived, depending on whether the cache is helpful or not. The public
interfaces of the workers only expose Base.
In general swap of Derived invalidates parts of the cache. But if both
instances are of type Derived, the cache should be swapped too instead
of invalidated. This requires double dispatch.
Marcel
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