Re: Adding the ability to add functions into structures?

Richard Heathfield wrote:
Chuck F. said:
Jack Klein wrote:

... snip ...

I know I'll get flamed for this, but with the exception of inheritance this is really nothing but syntactical sugar.
You can write object oriented programs in C right now.

A perfect example is the FILE data type, declared an
<stdio.h>. It has a creator, fopen(), a destructor,
fclose(), and all sorts of methods you can invoke on it via
its pointer, such as fprintf(), fscanf(), fread(), fwrite(),
between its successful creation and its destruction.


I see no reason for any fires.  The only problem with your
example is that you can't write (in general) that type in C.


I must have misunderstood what you mean, because I see no reason
whatsoever why one could not write (in general) that type in C.

I meant that to implement FILE you have to access such things as ports, disks, etc. that take you out of pure C.

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