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From: johnson@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Smalltalk-like classes
Message-ID: <4800104@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 90 22:05:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!johnson    Sep 13 17:05:00 1990


The Tektronix Smalltalk browser as of three or four years
ago was able to show all the inherited methods of a class.
It showed implementation, not just comments, and this was
very useful.  You can select how much of the class hierarchy
should be shown, which is also important.

In my opinion, it is proper to show the implementation of 
superclasses.  If you don't want to know the implementation 
of a class then you should probably be reusing it as a member,
not as a superclass.

Ralph Johnson -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign