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Re: Misuses of RTTI

by Mathias Gaunard <loufoque@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 10, 2008 at 05:53 AM

On 10 mai, 05:13, OuFeRRaT <oufer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I don't understand the sentence:
> "but the usual rule concerning RTTI is more or less the same as with
> goto statements" can anyone explain it?


Just like you should avoid using goto statements in favour of regular
loops, you should avoid using RTTI in favor of other language features
that can do the same.
Anyway, RTTI scarcely has uses. The visitor pattern, for example, is a
much better approach when you want to check the type of a variable
over multiple cases.

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Misuses of RTTI
OuFeRRaT <ouferrat@[EM  2008-05-09 21:13:35 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Pavel Minaev <int19h@[  2008-05-10 05:52:08 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Mathias Gaunard <loufo  2008-05-10 05:53:41 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
brangdon@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-10 06:14:41 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Francis Glassborow <fr  2008-05-10 06:14:40 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
MiB <Michael.Boehnisch  2008-05-10 14:08:42 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
"Bo Persson" &l  2008-05-11 16:40:58 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Carl Barron <cbarron41  2008-05-11 22:13:29 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
=?UTF-8?B?RXJpayBXaWtzdHL  2008-05-13 10:55:29 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
galathaea <galathaea@[  2008-05-13 21:12:13 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Gerhard Fiedler <gelis  2008-05-13 21:27:28 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
bravo <szymon.gatner@[  2008-05-14 08:36:57 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
brangdon@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-17 02:27:45 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Tony Delroy <tony_in_d  2008-05-14 08:38:14 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Mathias Gaunard <loufo  2008-05-14 12:27:28 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Mathias Gaunard <loufo  2008-05-14 12:55:43 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
anthonypon@[EMAIL PROTECT  2008-05-15 02:47:07 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Greg Herlihy <greghe@[  2008-05-15 11:21:05 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
dizzy <dizzy@[EMAIL PR  2008-05-15 11:57:29 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
dizzy <dizzy@[EMAIL PR  2008-05-15 11:57:29 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Edward Diener <diener8  2008-05-15 15:57:15 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Mathias Gaunard <loufo  2008-05-16 17:30:34 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Frank Birbacher <blood  2008-05-16 17:44:13 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Daniel James <wastebas  2008-05-16 17:43:20 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
"Marcin Kalicinski&q  2008-05-17 02:57:29 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Edward Diener <diener8  2008-05-17 14:38:55 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Greg Herlihy <greghe@[  2008-05-17 14:36:47 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Edward Diener <diener8  2008-05-17 14:39:16 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Andre Kaufmann <akfmne  2008-05-17 14:38:10 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Andre Kaufmann <akfmne  2008-05-17 23:20:59 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Daniel James <wastebas  2008-05-18 16:48:55 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Andre Kaufmann <akfmne  2008-05-19 06:05:40 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Francis Glassborow <fr  2008-05-19 12:01:47 
Re: Misuses of RTTI
Francis Glassborow <fr  2008-05-20 18:59:18 

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