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From: shang@corp.mot.com (David L. Shang)
Subject: Re: Eiffel and Java
Date: 1996/11/18
Message-ID: <1996Nov18.223239.21147@schbbs.mot.com>#1/1
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Date: 1996-11-18T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <Kai.Quale-1811962012430001@macusit36.uio.no> Kai.Quale@usit.uio.no  
(Kai Quale) writes:
> How does separation of subtype from subclass help a subclass in violating
> the constraining requirement regulated by its parent ?

Exactly by allowing subclass not being a subtype. When it violates,
it cannot be a subtype, but it still can be a subclass.

> Btw, by "parent",
> do you mean its supertype or superclass ?
> 

Hence the "parent" is the superclass in general.

David Shang