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From: paj@mrcu (Paul Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Inheritance and Information Hiding
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Date: 11 Feb 91 13:56:03 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.045542.791@visix.com> <BLERNER.91Feb6100509@empire.cs.umass.edu> <1991Feb6.214110.28256@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Feb7.205232.23548@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Feb7.205232.23548@Neon.Stanford.EDU> craig@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Craig D. Chambers) writes:
>In article <BLERNER.91Feb6100509@empire.cs.umass.edu> blerner@empire.cs.umass.edu (Barbara Lerner) writes:

> [Good stuff about the polygon-rectangle problem deleted.  Briefly,
> the idea was that rectangle.add_vertex turns the object into a
> polygon]

In passing, its worth noting that the InterViews solution to this very
problem was similar to what was proposed in the referenced articles.
If you asked for a rectangle, you got a polygon with 4 vertices and
all corners 90 degrees.  This could then be rotated and stretched at
will.

Paul.

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