mgardi@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (M.Gardi - ICR) (03/31/89)
I have a few more questions regarding the PC implementation of OO products. Does anyone out there develop on a machine,say the SUN, running UNIX, and then port the product to (in our case), a PS/2? We have to support at least a model 50. Is anyone developing for PC's that are not 386 machines or the equivalent? On a different note, Using C++, (and an eiffel reply would be nice), could one create static instances of a class? This goes back to whether classes are objects etc. The circumstance would be if your program internally wanted to create say 3 instances of a certain class, and always wanted to do this. I would like these to be there all the time, and not created at run time. I guess the second question is whether or not one can automatically construct sub-classes when a base class is constructed. If they are created in the base class constructor, one would have to change this routine everytime a new subclass was added. Hope I am not way off the wall here, and making some type of sense! p.