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From: jorge@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (Jorge Gautier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Is SELF a naughty OOP construct?
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Date: 7 Jun 88 22:30:39 GMT
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> Lieberman argues that the use of SELF in "classical" OO systems is a
> flaw, and argues that delegation is a better way to do things. 

And see Lynn Stein, "Delegation is Inheritance", OOPSLA '87 for a proof
of the equivalence of delegation and (real) inheritance.

Jorge