Re: ArrayList - Newbie Misunderstanding

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Thanks again for your reply.

Maybe I am very niave or old fashioned, but how is an object any
different from a subroutine with multiple entry and exit points - in
other words a subprogram with a giant case statement at the beginning,
determining which bit is accessed and which bit is returned. This
subprogram can either be local or global.

I have been bamboozled for years with terms such as polymorphism etc,
but i have never seen how the end result is any different from my
interpretation.

I can appreciate how the concept, helps with error free coding, but I
can not see how the concept, is any different from calling subroutines,
which may or may not return some value or modify a value passed as a
reference.



kenfine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
No prob if you're not interested in C#. However, what you're dealing with
here is a conceptual thing, not a syntax thing, and the concept is
consistent across many programming languages. The book is useful whether you
want to use VB or C# or Java.

-K F

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