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Jon L White writes:

    David, if it were possible to do  "complete determination
    i.e. static binding for the executable"  at compile time,
    then there would be no need for "virtual" functions in
    C++.   Do you understand the fundamental problem posed by
    having same-named methods on a class and and on a derived
    (sub) class?  the dispatch from a higher method cannot
    determine at compile time whether or not a sub-called
    method[*] is the one defined on the same statically
    determinable class or one of those defined on a derived
    (sub) class.  I talked about this topic at the CLOS versus
    C++ debate last week at the 1992 Lisp Users and Vendors
    conference.

Yes, I do understand that you can't do *complete* determination, but I meant
that you didn't always need to do table lookups for cases in which you would
not use "virtual" functions in C++.  I did not mean that you can always do
static determination for solutions in all know problem space.  I should have
been more specific.

dcm