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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Container reqs
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:55:40 +0200
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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> I fully agree with Jean-Marc that containers are for implementing
> things, not for inheriting from!
>


Obviously.
The inheritance I was talking about, at least, was between various kinds of
container interfaces (in order to allow class-wide algorithms that depend of
container interfaces).
The user works with specific containers.

Ehud