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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

>> And if the bodies need to be
>> different, then there are different bodies. So what?
> 
> The "so what" is that 90% of the code will be in common.
> So why would I duplicate 90% to manage the 10% in 3+
> cases?

There's no code in common if you do it right.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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