Hi,

>> as I understand your paper a Chimeric Pointer is a pointer to a class inheriting from all the listed base classes and supporting the -> operator for members of those base classes without additional cast

Didn't have time to keep up with this but it seems to be reverse polymorphism.

-- James S

------- Original Message -------
On Friday, November 25th, 2022 at 1:15 AM, Sebastian Wittmeier via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi Frederick,
>
> as I understand your paper a Chimeric Pointer is a pointer to a class inheriting from all the listed base classes and supporting the -> operator for members of those base classes without additional cast
>
> What would be the advantages and disadvantages of a concept with those properties? Is the main advantage that the Chimeric Pointer erases the actual type and the function with the pointer parameter does not have to be a template?
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]>
>> Gesendet: Do 24.11.2022 23:46
>> Betreff: [std-proposals] Chimeric Pointer
>> Anlage: chimeric_pointer.pdf
>> An: std-proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]cpp.org>;
>> CC: Frederick Virchanza Gotham <cauldwell.thomas_at_[hidden]>;
>> I've written a 2-page PDF file to describe my new idea of chimeric
>> pointers. I've tried to attach it to this email, and also you can
>> download it from my webspace here:
>>
>> http://www.virjacode.com/download/chimeric_pointer.pdf
>>
>> Here's a excerpt from the PDF:
>>
>> "When you apply the ‘->’ operator to a chimeric pointer and then try
>> to access a member object or a member function, the compiler tries to
>> find the member in all the base classes"
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