From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) Subject: Re: Module size (was Re: Software landmines) Date: 1998/09/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 388169290 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: spark23.ecf Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) References: <6snlos$bh6$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6spojo$8ir$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <35f58f68.94311132@news.erols.com> <35F0BC05.61919244@s054.aone.net.au> Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <35F0BC05.61919244@s054.aone.net.au>, Loryn Jenkins wrote: > >This is interesting that you say "unfortunately". If 2 classes *did* >have the same interface, why wouldn't you make them both inherit from an >abstract class that defines the interface? What if you didn't write them? What if they came from two different vendors? -PD -- -- Patrick Doyle doylep@ecf.toronto.edu