Re: [Boost-users] Need boost's help with poor design

29 Mar 2008


      AMDG

Robert Dailey wrote:
...
It seems that so far we've gotten everything done without RTTI, I 
would hate to introduce it here.
RTTI is not always evil.  It may be less efficient to hash the strings,
but it is not worse from a design perspective.
...
I see what you're saying now. Something like this might be in order:
struct Packet
{
    virtual PacketId GetId() const = 0;
};
struct WalkPacket : Packet
{
    static const PacketId ID = PID_WALKPACKET;
    virtual PacketId GetId() const { return ID; }
};
Yep.  That works.  Just thought I'd point out that this is not so very 
different
from RTTI, after all.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe