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From: budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: favorite class hierarchies
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Date: 2 Sep 88 15:58:20 GMT
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One thing I've done in the (as yet unreleased) next version of Little 
Smalltalk is to put the collection hierarchy as a subclass of Magnitude.
Set relations become subsets 
		Set(a b) < Set (a b c) < Set (a b c d)
Arrays (and hence strings) have lexical orderings  
		'abc' between: 'ab' and: 'abcd'  yields true
and other nice things come for free with this change.
--tim budd    budd@cs.orst.edu