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From: pallas@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Joe Pallas)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Inheritance IS NOT Delagation!!!!!
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Date: 13 Oct 89 03:26:33 GMT
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In article <6219@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) writes a very confusing
explanation of why he thinks something which is not inheritance is
better than something which is not delegation.

I only hope that no one was so confused by reading his article that
they can't get unconfused.  I strongly recommend reading ``A Shared
View of Sharing: The Treaty of Orlando'' (in {\em Object-Oriented
Concepts, Databases, and Applications\/}) for a good explanation of
what inheritance and delegation have in common and how they differ.

joe