Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*

On 9/23/07, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

You must have misunderstood.  Why?  The linux kernel is itself very
heavily "object oriented" already, even if it is written in C.  You
don't need C++ for that.

Yes it's true, you don't need it. Object oriented in C is achived
using function pointers.

In C you fill a struct of function pointers with proper values instead
of inherithing from an (abstract) base class as you would do in C++.
The results are more or less the same modulo some type safe.


Marco