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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: heterogeneous collections
Message-ID: <3113@enea.se>
Date: 31 Mar 91 21:13:53 GMT
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Also sprach Darren New (new@ee.udel.edu):
>Hmm... a homogenous collection that when you take it apart yields things
>with different types. Somehow, I think we are confused over terminology.
>Either that, or you are reaching for straws :-) The whole point of
>a hetrogeneous collection is that sometimes you treat everything
>the same and sometimes you treat each thing differently.

I think no one questions the use of heterogeneous collections.
But how common are the cases when the collections is heterogeneous
that they don't even have a common inheritance structure which
can't be described in a statically typed language. Static typing
does not preclude dynamic binding.
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se