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From: chandra@mrsvr.UUCP (B. Chandramouli)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: ADT vs. Objects
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Date: 14 Nov 90 16:18:52 GMT
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From article <1990Nov13.212012.3662@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, by craig@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Craig D. Chambers):
> Inheritance of implementation seems like something that could be moved
> out of the core language and into the programming environment, where
> more flexible and adaptive code sharing/automatic programming could be
> done without cramming a lot of functionality into a language
> mechanism.  

> -- Craig Chambers

	Replacing Inheritance with Code sharing/Reuse facilities provided
	by the programming environment   will work only for cases where you
	have access to the source code. You need inheritance provided by
	the language when you want to subclass from a class that
	is part of a standard class library provided by a vendor for which
	you have only the object code and not the source.

	chandra