By atul (29. September 2006, 11:48:16)
Why switch/case in Packet::name??
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Dear all

I think it would be easier to make name() a pure virtual …

So the compiler makes sure we provide a name ;-)

Switch/case is really against OO… I think Packet::fromRawData is fin as it is a factory ( we should think for a better name though for this method … )

What do you all think?

— cheers atul


	









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			By Peter Dimov (30. September 2006, 01:37:26)
		

		

			
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		Hi Atul,

You are right that name() should be a pure virtual. It was just a fast hack some long time ago when I needed to dump some debug info. name()  (more...)