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From: steve@ragman (Steve Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: object oriented design decision
Message-ID: <3528@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 13:11:14 GMT
References: <11256@cup.portal.com>
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From article <11256@cup.portal.com>, by dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins):
> Thanks for all the email responses to my query.  To summarize:
> 
> Multiple inheritance is an indication that something is wrong with the class
> hierarchy.
> 
> Lexical scoping inhibits reusability.

I think these are the same problem.  The insistance on a hierarchy
may put you in a bind both performance wise and logically.  Recall
the problems with type theory in general.  Another problem is that
a hierarchy of true ABSTRACT data types ( in the sense that a queue
apart from any implementation ) is not tantamount to a package or
module.