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From: stevenwurster@lycos.com (Steven Wurster)
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Subject: Re: OOP Language for OS Development
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JKop <NULL@NULL.NULL> wrote in message news:<XHvic.5501$qP2.13349@news.indigo.ie>...
> 
> Why the hell would you want automatic polymorphism? There's times 
> when I want functions NOT to be polymorphic!
> 

Automatic polymorphism is needed to support the Open Closed Principle.
 But it can be turned off in Eiffel by declaring a routine as frozen. 
Similar to final in Java, which also has automatic polymorphism.

Oh, and, nice attitude.