From: bobduff@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Bob Duff)
Subject: Re: Motivating inheritance and dyn. poly.
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 01:48:20 GMT
Date: 1994-11-19T01:48:20+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CzHroL.4qr@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3ai9g8$5e6@israel-info.datasrv.co.il
In article <3ai9g8$5e6@israel-info.datasrv.co.il>,
Moti Ben-Ari <benari@zeus.datasrv.co.il> wrote:
>As for class-wide programming, most of the examples seem to deal
>with heterogeneous data structures, whose problems are caused
>by strong-typing.
>If that is the justification for inheritance, then it becomes
>a technical matter hardly of interest to the average programmer.
I don't understand that. Why is strong typing "hardly of interest"?
Please explain.
- Bob
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Bob Duff bobduff@inmet.com
Oak Tree Software, Inc.
Ada 9X Mapping/Revision Team (Intermetrics, Inc.)
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1994-11-18 13:16 Motivating inheritance and dyn. poly Moti Ben-Ari
1994-11-19 1:48 ` Bob Duff [this message]
1994-11-21 15:33 ` Norman H. Cohen
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