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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:30:09 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: C++ and the kernel
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:

> > There are many places in the kernel that are actually very OO - look at
> > filesystems for example. The super_operations sturcture is in effect a
> > virtual function table.
>
> The file operations structure(s) are structures. They are not object-
> oriented in any way, and they are certainly not virtual. The code that
> manipulates them is quite physical and procedural, well defined, and
> visible to the rest of the kernel.

As Alan said it very nicely one day:

	"Object orientation is in the mind, not in the compiler"


What we want is some (sane) degree of abstraction so things stay
maintainable, we don't need a full rewrite in another language.

regards,

Rik
-- 
Will hack the VM for food.

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