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From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message news:<3afc3v4uur2kvd53v4ul18b5npjfm188o3@4ax.com>...

> But that's another thing. Here, Circle cannot use (inherit) the
> methods of Ellipse. It inherits only the abstract methods of
> EliipseInterface and thus, have to implement all of them for scratch.
> This kills the whole idea of inheritance for code reuse.

I thought that idea was dead many years ago, when it was discovered
that failure to separate interface and implementation leads to a mess.