Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!sciore From: sciore@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Edward Sciore) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Inheritence and Delegation Message-ID: <40289@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 13 Oct 89 13:53:16 GMT References: <126109@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: sciore@bucs5.bu.edu (Edward Sciore) Followup-To: comp.object Organization: Boston University Lines: 6 Another relevant paper is "Object Specialization" which just appeared in the April 1989 issue of ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems. In that paper I propose a strategy which seems to be an effective combination of the two approaches. By "effective", I also mean "practical" -- the ideas of the paper have been implemented in the VISION Object-Oriented Database System, which has been commercially available for several years now.