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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.object
Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: heterogeneous collections
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Date: 1 Apr 91 16:22:35 GMT
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In article <CIMSHOP!DAVIDM.91Mar28190551@uunet.UU.NET> cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes:
> Every message in the queue would be a member of the class Message, no?

That's an implementation detail. Really. The programming model is a queue
you can stick varying objects into... how they're encapsulated so the guy
at the other end can recover the type information is beside the point.
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