From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-01-31T03:22:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Mike Campbell wrote:

> Out of curiosity, how so?  Some of ruby's goodness is so much more useful
> that C++'s, but I don't find a lot of it to be OOP related; iterators,
> typeless variables, closures, and the like.  The "OOPness" of ruby and C++ I
> find relatively equivalent.

try implementing these two

ruby :

  class Table < Array
    ...
  end

c--:

  class Table : public std::vector <std::vector <std::string> > >
    {
    }

in general, just _try_ extending (extensibility being major measure of OOness
IMHO) the stl.

try implementing the state pattern in c--
try implementing the observer pattern in c--
try implementing th visitor pattern in c--

these are some things which should be readily implementable in any OO
language, if you are a GoF fan.  'readily' takes on an entirely geological
meaning if you are referring to c--

-a

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