OOP_(re)

Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:41:29 +0100 (BST)

On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:04:55 +0200 Frank Heckenbach  
wrote:
>
>The African Chief wrote:
>
>> >As Pierre said: string comparison are less efficient than integer compares,
>> >and generally I think *internal* things (i.e. things that must only be read
>> >by computers, not by humans) should use integers rather than strings when
>> >there's no real need for strings. Resource files, AFAIK, are binary files,
>> >anyway, so what good would it be to have some strings scattered in them?
>>
>> Resource files (at least Windows resource files) can also hold strings in
>> string tables. Most Windows programmers cannot do without these string
>> tables. How would you represent the strings with integers? You need to
>> store the actual strings in the resource file.
>
>That's something different! These strings (if I understood string tables
>correctly) are actually to be read (or typed) by humans. 

Correct.

> There's no question
>that they must be stored as strings (unless, of course, one intentionally
>wants to encrypt and/or compress them to make them unreadable in the binary).

True.

>But e.g. the IDs of the strings would be numerical (just as they are in
>WinAPI/OWL, AFAIR).

True.

>> Would there be a problem if two or more programmers (unknown to each other)
>> just happened to choose the same ID?

[...]

>If different programmers really happened to choose the same ID, it could
>matter if they wanted to combine their sources (however, the compiler would
>(should) notice this, so they could change the IDs, and they'd just have to
>recompile everything once), or when they exchanged or shared data files
>with these IDs in them (which, however, seems strange unless the sources
>are combined, too).

Suppose they put their code in dynamic linked libraries (meaning that any
application that can load functions from such libraries can use the code) ?

Best regards, The Chief 
Dr Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief, and the Great Elephant)
Author of:  Chief's Installer Pro v3.60 for Win16 and Win32.
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E-mail: laa12@cc.keele.ac.uk


The African Chief (laa12@cc.keele.ac.uk)