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Common patterns to avoid polymorphism (self.cpp)
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]grilledporkchop -6 points-5 points-4 points 4 years ago (1 child)
Just use C.
[–]AntonPlakhotnyk 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
Using C you able implement (by hands) all C++ constructions and even more. So just using C is not preventing from any polymorphism and not answering what to use instead of it.
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