• Ben Hinkle <ben.hinkle gmail.com> Sep 05 2007

Ben Hinkle <ben.hinkle gmail.com> writes:

 Internally a pointer to an interface would actually be a struct
 containing the vtable and a pointer to the object which would be a
 tiny bit more costly than a class reference.


 I've wanted this for a LONG time. It would allow all sorts of fun things 
 to implement an interface (functions, structs, maybe even basic types). Alas 
 it would break COM or require a totally incompatible special case. (I darn 
 to heck whoever defined the COM standard that way!)


This is the same as what I've been calling "typed pointers" in Cx:
http://tinycx.sourceforge.net/typeptr.html. You can add methods to builtin
types like "double" or "int". Cx is temporarily on the back burner so there are
no downloads available but I hope to return to it soon.

-Ben