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Subject: Re: OO vs procedural
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 05:18:28 -0400
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"kevin  cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com> writes:

> In the second paper, they give this example:

I'm missing context here; what paper are you talking about?


> <snip code>
>
> The authors then point out a describe a potential pitfall of this code
> -- that a derived type implementation may fail to call the base
> implementation.  This is true.  

Right.

> The authors fail to point out that this possibility could have been
> prevented by correct base class design.

How, exactly? I've never heard this claim before.

-- 
-- Stephe