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7 Sep 2024 09:24:03 EDT (-0400)
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From: scott
Date: 15 Sep 2008 06:07:22
Message: <48ce33da$1@news.povray.org>
> Anyway, again when I learned that dynamic binding is an extra feature that 
> you have to manually tern on, I kind of lost interest. (Plus my head was 
> spinning by the time I'd finished reading about the inner complexities of 
> pointers vs references, copy constructors, etc.) I'm not sure if C++ 
> really is this hard or whether the book was just badly written, but it 
> sure did an efficient job of putting me off.

Sounds like it tried to cram in too much too soon, something is wrong if you 
find yourself wondering about dynamic binding before you understand what 
while(*a++=*b++); does!  YOu can get a very long way without ever needing to 
know about dynamic binding or the detail of how copy constructors work.


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