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From: donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison)
Subject: Re: polymophism
Date: 1996/11/25
Date: 1996-11-25T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ezzr.62L@syd.csa.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023280002211962356520001@news.ni.net


Matthew Heaney writes:

:Bertrand Meyer said in his "steps to object-oriented happiness" that to be
:trully object-oriented then the class and the module are the same.  But
:this a silly.  You need a way to manage global namespace somehow. 
:(Interesting, because he later added a namespace construct.  

You may be thinking of clusters (which aren't part of the language). These 
serve only to group classes into subsystems as an administrative convenience
and have no semantic significance.


Don.
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  reply	other threads:[~1996-11-25  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-11-18  0:00 polymophism AGBOH CHARLES
1996-11-19  0:00 ` polymophism Darren C Davenport
1996-11-21  0:00   ` polymophism Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-21  0:00   ` polymophism James O'Connor
1996-11-21  0:00     ` polymophism Mike Stark
1996-11-22  0:00       ` polymophism Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-22  0:00       ` polymophism Klaus Brouwer
1996-11-23  0:00         ` polymophism James O'Connor
1996-11-25  0:00         ` polymophism Richard Riehle
1996-11-22  0:00     ` polymophism Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-23  0:00       ` polymophism James O'Connor
1996-11-22  0:00         ` polymophism Matthew Heaney
1996-11-25  0:00           ` Don Harrison [this message]
1996-11-25  0:00           ` polymophism Joachim Durchholz
1996-11-26  0:00             ` polymophism Don Harrison
1996-11-25  0:00       ` Is Ada an OO Language? (was => Re: polymophism) Richard Riehle
1996-11-25  0:00         ` James S. Rogers
1996-11-23  0:00     ` polymophism John Howard
1996-11-22  0:00   ` polymophism Jon S Anthony
1996-11-22  0:00     ` polymophism Robert A Duff
1996-11-23  0:00   ` polymophism Jon S Anthony
1996-11-24  0:00   ` polymophism Robert B. Love 
1996-11-27  0:00   ` Is Ada an OO Language? (was => Re: polymophism) Robert I. Eachus
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-11-26  0:00 polymophism Peter Hermann
1996-11-26  0:00 ` polymophism John Howard
1996-11-26  0:00 ` polymophism Peter Hicks
1996-11-26  0:00   ` polymophism Peter Hermann
1996-11-29  0:00 ` polymophism Richard Riehle
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