More object model questions

[John H. Spicer]

David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John H. Spicer" <jhs at edg.com>
> 
> >
> > I'm afraid that after all that I don't have anything very interesting to
> > say except that it sounds like a good reason for extended RTTI.  It also
> > sounds like we need a variant of dynamic_cast that can take a typeid
> > as the destination type.
> 
> Now /that/ sounds promising!
> It knows something about the static type of the source so it can find vtbls,
> and the typeid can provide the rest of what's needed. Will you propose an
> extension?
> 

I don't think I want to make a proposal because I don't think I'm in a good
position to write a rationale.  I'd be happy to contribute to a proposal
though.

John.