Re: Use of Mac OS X 10.5 / Leopards Garbage Collection Considered Harmful

FROM : Brady Duga
DATE : Thu Feb 07 04:22:15 2008

On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:01 PM, glenn andreas wrote:
>
> One could also manually construct a C++ vtable and set up all the 
> magic "behind the scenes" plumbing that a C++ object has, but that 
> doesn't mean that C++ object are ' synonymous for "Structs" ' either.


Well, in C++ you can say that class is a synonym for struct (aside 
from the fairly minor issue of default visibility). Though, I think 
the point stands that in Objective-C they are not. Just because you 
can pound a square peg into a round hole doesn't mean you have a round 
peg.

--Brady