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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Inheritance explained... finaly...
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Date: 6 Jan 90 15:47:26 GMT
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/ comp.object / weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) / Jan  5, 1990 /
> This passage when taken alone (since I have not read the article)
> indicates that one can operate on 'complex numbers' as if they were
> 'real's.  [...]  I'm sure the intent was to say that the 'real'
> operators may be used to build the complex operators, which is true.

Unfortunately, that's too generous.  The passage I presented is the
complete "treatise" of inheritance in the article.

Jacob

P.S.  The rest of the article is quite reasonable.  (Half of it does not
deal with O-O, but with other productivity improvements -- visualization,
CASE, interface building tools, etc.)

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