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From: "Marky Mark" <mrox@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/01/10
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Date: 1997-01-10T00:00:00+00:00
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Don Harrison <donh@syd.csa.com.au> wrote in article
<E3rDu6.7AJ@syd.csa.com.au>...
> David Emery writes:
> 
> :>> 	- A completely consistent type structure, in which 
> :>> 	  even basic types such as INTEGER are classes,
> :>> 	  present in the general inheritance structure.
> :>> 	  (In C++ or Java, for example, the basic types
> :>> 	  are completely separate from the class and inheritance

Besides, in a hybrid language like C++ you could always have the best of
both worlds - encapsulating integers as classes or using the intrinsics as
you'd like.