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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Sugestions for runtime polymorphism
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
>>In that case, why not just use C++ and the polymorphism issues becomes moot.
>
>   That would agree well with the style guidelines:
>
>       »CPL.1: Prefer C++ to C«
>
>     github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines

That's a set of guidelines for coding *in C++*.  I'm surprised they
even bother to mention that.

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