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From: donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison)
Subject: Re: polymophism
Date: 1996/11/25
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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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