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From: deboor@nutmeg.Berkeley.EDU.berkeley.edu (Adam R de Boor)
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Subject: Re: A couple of comments on the Intrinsics document
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Date: 7 Jan 88 21:34:29 GMT
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The first-time gyrations occur because of multiple-level inheritance. If you
have a three-level heirarchy:
	A
	|
	B
	|
	C
where a method is defined in A and both B and C want to inherit it, if the
class of C weren't changed to B, the call would loop infinitely, since the
superclass would always appear to be B (the Inherit function would copy
the Inherit function from B to C, then call itself...). I, too, was
confused by this first time out. Took me a while to justify it...

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