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From: bobduff@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Bob Duff)
Subject: Re: Motivating inheritance and dyn. poly.
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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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