Re: dynamic_cast is ugly!
On Mar 12, 4:26 pm, Andreas Dehmel <blackhole.
8.zarquo...@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:34:28 -0700 (PDT), Daniel T. wrote:
Since in a proper OO design, Shapes shouldn't know anything about its
specializations, any methods referring to specializations such as
rectangles are by definition very poor OO design.
I agree completely.
Again, there are so many correct ways to do it, that without a
specific problem domain, I can't just spout out some answer that is
guaranteed to be correct for all domains.
If you call cluttering the base interface with a plethora of highly
specialization-biased methods a ``correct way'' to deal with this problem
then any further discussion is pointless.
I am not advocating such cluttering.
I think few around here would argue that one should minimize the use
of [goto] and in particular not ``design'' anything that requires
it even for its most basic functions. But completely dismissing it
like you did and the ``correct'' workarounds you suggested are mere
fundamentalism as far as I'm concerned.
I did a word replace on your text above, can you see it? I completely
agree with the above, whether it is about dynamic_cast, or goto. The
above is exactly what I've been saying.
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