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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: MI in Ada 200X
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 19:14:08 +0000 (UTC)
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
: Georg Bauhaus wrote:
:> int B::bar() { foo(); }   // which foo() here?
: 
: Neither one, since it's ambiguous, and the compiler
: will tell you that.

yes.

: But so what?

Some people have expressed disklike of this feature,
at least they complain about the similar facility in
Eiffel. I don't know why it is called a problem though,
if MI isn't. Is there a mathematical problem of the same
name in geometry?

<ot>Incidentally, CLOS has precedence rules, afaics; but
can programmers decide themselves, in CLOS, how to
disambiguate?</>


-- Georg