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From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
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Subject: Re: Parents, just don't understand.
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Date: 27 Jul 90 13:45:12 GMT
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 26-Jul-90 Re: Parents, just don't
und.. Gary Keim@andrew.cmu.edu (520+0)

> Well, it is strange that there doesn't exist at least at view-class
> macromethod along these lines:

> class view  {

>   macromethods:
> 	Parent()		((self)->parent)

> };

> I don't know what the reasoning is behind this because you just need to
> get your parent sometimes -- mostly when posting menus and keystates.

> Use this macro for any subclasses of view:

> #define Parent(self)  ((self)->header.view.parent)


Well, why not add "Parent" as a macromethod to the view class in the
next patch, rather than tell everyone to define their own macro and
leave it at that?