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From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract)
Date: 1997/09/12
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In article <fxtiuw7ert4.fsf@isolde.mti.sgi.com> Matt Austern <austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com> writes:

> The bottom line: inheritance is useful for some purposes, but it is
> not a panacea.  Base-derived semantics is not at all the same as
> interface-implementation semantics.

Absolutely!  And I find it rather stunning that some here can't twig
this fact (yes, this particular bit is objective fact).

/Jon
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