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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de> wrote in message
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> >> Also
> >> you should support fully qualified forms like:
> >>
> >> e.Geometry.Flat.Figures.Conic.Float_Figures.Ellipse.Draw (p);
> >
> >Why? It is misleading, since object.something usually means something in
the
> >context of object.
>
> Because, actually "context of object" is rather an imaginary thing.
> Consider overriding. What if the parent's Draw should be called? Then
> if sometimes MI will be supported, what about name clashes induced by
> multiple inheritance?

(not that I like this alternate syntax idea, but...)  Don't forget that the
inherited primitives of a type are implicitly declared at the point of the
type declaration.