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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Generic abstracts
Date: 1999/11/30
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Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> writes:

> However, at the moment only "overloadable" things (i.e. subprograms 
> and enumerals) are inheritable, and that has some nice properties.

I don't see the connection between overloadable and inheritable.

By the way, I have wanted to write overloaded generic functions in the
past...

- Bob