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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Help - Constructors - ASAP.
Date: 1998/08/01
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<<But, a naieve reader would look at that and think that they could get back an
object of *any* type in the class (as I have just proven :-) ), when in
actuality they always get back the same class of object.
>>

That's a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of what classwide programming
is all about. Yes, of course people can have all sorts of misconceptions,
but this one is pretty basic, and not a misconception that could stay
arround very long!