Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> I've done close to nothing with OOP, but find it interesting. I'm
> wondering what the structure of an object is, as generated by the
> compiler. I'm thinking that it starts with a structure that has public
> variables and pointers to public functions. You'd call the functions by
> following these pointers. When a new object is defined based on an
> existing one, this structure is copied, inheriting the pointers to the
> old object's functions. Then new functions can be defined in the new
> object and the pointers in the new object are overwritten with pointers
> to the new functions.

There is no need to store pointers at run time if the methods are known and
fixed at compile time.


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