From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Implement Inheritance (Ada83)?
Date: 7 Mar 1995 07:19:16 -0500
Date: 1995-03-07T07:19:16-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3jhj04$2dv@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3jf8fh$rmt@source.asset.com
Kevin Wise says, in response to the subject line
"Most people will tell you that this can't be done"
Count me out of most people! Inheritance is a conceptual idea, not a
syntactic gizmo. Yes, of course it is valuable to have syntactic sugar
to represent important concepts, but you can perfectly well implement'
the fundamental abstraction mechanism that we call inheritance in ANY
language!
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1995-03-03 13:51 Implement Inheritance (Ada83)? Dwayne Barrington
1995-03-06 15:07 ` Kevin Weise
1995-03-07 12:19 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1995-03-07 13:19 ` Theodore E. Dennison
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1995-03-07 19:03 Jeff Seigle
1995-03-08 13:28 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1995-03-08 21:38 ` William Brennan
1995-03-10 9:35 ` Peter Hermann
1995-03-13 2:27 ` Mark A Biggar
1995-03-10 15:15 Jeff Seigle
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