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From: Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>
Subject: Re: Importance of Polymorphism
Date: 1998/02/12
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Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:

> On 10 Feb 1998, Jon S Anthony wrote:
> > Yes, exactly.  However, inheritance per se' is probably the root of
> > all the "disadvantage" here, not so much simply dynamic dispatch.
> > Another way of saying this is that (class) inheritance based dd is
> > where such problems arise (with the attendant benefits of that
> > abstraction as well).
>
> What else do you have in mind? Delegation is even more
> "spaghetti-like" as far as I can tell, though it also has
> advantages.

Actually, I wasn't comparing CB dd for better/worse with any
comparable capability thing.  But dd is an orthogonal issue from the
problems of inheritance (what comes from where, etc.)

/Jon

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