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From: schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
   The best way to solve this problem is to avoid it: get source code.

But that completely begs the question.  If you can change all the
sources, why do you need inheritance?  The whole point is to be able
to extend existing immutable types, without having to recompile the
world in the process.