Lecture 5: From V-Tables to Subtype Polymorphism: A Whirlwind Tour of Polymorphism, Pointers, and Puns

Because who doesn’t love mixing unsafe C++ casts with smug Scala traits before bedtime?

The lecture opens with a redefinition of object-oriented programming as dynamically dispatched behavior. From the outset the speaker stresses that a class, treated merely as a module for organizing s…