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Chuck Swiger wrote this message on Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 00:06 -0500:
> Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> >2. OOPish device object (device_t) ? 
> 
> True OOP involves encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritence, and 
> requires language support which is not really available in pure C.  That 
> being said, careful programming in C lets you create several 
> closely-related structs for different types of "objects" which can all be 
> utilized by a common set of functions.

You should read up on KOBJ's which is how device_t's are implemented
in FreeBSD...  kobj's are a loop more OOP that you think...

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