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From: "Mark Lundquist" <mark@rational.com>
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Subject: Re: controlled type in generic package?
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:58:59 -0800
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J.P.'s example is much better than the one I gave (in a followup to Lutz
Donnerhacke), because it does not involve a dangling pointer.  It shows that
you would have a problem (beserk dispatching call) even though the object
still exists.

There would be a real problem with allowing an object to "outlive its
own type"!

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