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Article #4042Re: Is RTTI required if polymorphic constructor exists
From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:36
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:36
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satrajit@iscs.nus.sg (Satrajit Sujit Ghosh) writes:
> If a polymorphic constructor can be created as demonstrated below,
>is RTTI really necessary, considering that it does not really provide a
>great deal of information.
No, RTTI is not really necessary. `if', `while', and `for' are not
really necessary either, because you can just use `goto'. Like many
other things, RTTI is not strictly necessary, but convenient.
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