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From: ogden@seal.cis.ohio-state.edu (William F Ogden)
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Subject: Re: Inheritance and Information Hiding
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Date: 19 Feb 91 20:25:13 GMT
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Simon Shaw writes:
   ...
>I have been lurking here for some time, and am very keen that a
>satisfactory answer should be found to the inheritance debate.
   ...

Doesn't it strike anyone that there really isn't a satisfactory answer
to the polygon/rectangle inheritance problem. If inheritance weren't a
central tenet of the Object Oriented Programming dogma, but just an
ordinary idea, we could take a detached scientific view and discard it as
just another initially attractive notion that when elaborated in full
generality proves bankrupt.

/Bill