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From: weigand@kub.nl (Hans Weigand)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Examples of Multiple Inheritance?
Keywords: generalization, MI
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.130720.2525@kub.nl>
Date: 11 Dec 90 13:07:20 GMT
References: <60700005@inmet> <1990Dec6.020928.13319@Think.COM> <1990Dec6.185634.24199@crl.dec.com>
Organization: Tilburg University, The Netherlands
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In article <1990Dec6.185634.24199@crl.dec.com> halbert@crl.dec.com writes:
>
>The DEC Trellis language provides multiple inheritance. ..
> ...     However, most uses are not of the
>Teacher/Student type of combination, where two conceptually "equal"
>types are merged. 

Just a side remark, but I doubt that even in this case the two concepts
merged are equally important. Teacher-assistant is primarily a
subtype of Teacher, besides subtypes like professor, assistant-professor
etc. On the Student side, there is not such a subcategorization.

Hans Weigand                             weigand@kub.nl
Tilburg University