From: "Victor Bazarov" <vAbazarov AT dAnai DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GENERAL DATA TYPE (Do you need one ?)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:09:43 -0800
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"Traveler" <traveler AT netti DOT fi> wrote...
> Hi to all !
>
> I have only one (and maybe a stupid ?) question:
> Do you have a need for an general data type (something like the
"Object" in
> Java) ?

I have only one (maybe stupid) answer: No, _I_ don't.

> Currently the only thing I see this could be used is in a function
that has
> no parameters but still needs to return different kind of types
(template is
> not a solution here...)

"...needs to return different kind of types..." : what for?

>
> Example:
>
> Object    f(void);    // Function overloading is not possible if only
the
> return value changes
>                             // int f(void), short f(void), etc... are
not
> possible

Yes.  So?

>
> // The following would be possible...
> int    x = f();
> long    y = f();

What would that do?

> // So would this...
> int    x = 10;
> int    y = 20;
> Object    tmp;
> tmp = x;
> x = y;
> y = tmp;    // Now, x has 20 & y has 10

Why can't 'tml' be 'int'?

Victor
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