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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Implement Inheritance (Ada83)?
Date: 7 Mar 1995 07:19:16 -0500
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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!