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Posts tagged oop
Synonyms: object-oriented-programming
Consider the following method as an example: List<int> Foo() { // ... } Are there any disadvantages of returning an interface instead of a concrete implementation in C#? IList<i...
Note: I asked this question on TopAnswers a couple weeks ago, but didn't get any response, so I figured I'd ask it here. I am currently learning C++. I have a parent class (Vehicle) and two subc...
Is it valid to partly allocate an object, as long as you only use the allocated part of it? #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> struct s { int i[100]; }; int main(void) {...
I'm using an object-oriented design for my C project and trying to implement classes with private encapsulation. How do I do this? Some things I've tried that are problematic: Using a struct f...
As a relative newcomer to Rust, I'm trying to understand the behaviour of lifetimes, but I am confused by the following code: let s: &str = "first"; let mut r: &str = s; println!("First ...
I understand that in object-oriented programming, an object is an instance of a class. If it's an instance, I misunderstand why does it need the term object at all (we could just say "instance"). ...
I'm using Java code as an example, but this can be answered if you don't know Java. class Bird{ public void sing(){ System.out.println("Testing"); } } class anClass ex...
Are there practical reasons for designing/implementing a method(s)-only class/object? Follow-up background notes: This question is for languages that are not exclusively Object-Oriented, for exam...
By "functional" I don't mean "procedural" (i.e. I don't mean to programming which is done solely or primarily with these data structures commonly known as "functions" but are actually procedures), ...
