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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Multiple Inheritance -- Is It A Luxury?
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Date: 3 Jul 90 18:16:03 GMT
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In article <8967@goofy.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) 
writes:
> [...] I'm not using a hierarchy containing a lot of 
> libraries produced by other people.  If I were, I might want to use a 
lot 
> of multiple inheritance; but on the other hand, I think that in that 
> situation what I would *really* want is source code for all the 
libraries 
> so I could re-implement them to suit my purposes!

Well, I like source too. But one of the best features of OOP is re-usable 
modules *without* having to hack the source.

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