Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!arshad From: arshad@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Arshad Mahmood) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Inheritance explained... finaly... Message-ID: <1522@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 9 Jan 90 13:53:48 GMT References: <1130005@gore.com> <1719@novavax.UUCP> Reply-To: arshad@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Arshad Mahmood) Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U Lines: 16 In article <1719@novavax.UUCP> weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) writes: >In article <1130005@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes: > >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. Try again. You seem to have missed the explanation at the bottom related to April Fools day, even though I suspect the original article seems to be quite serious (self sigh, self sob, etc). A. Mahmood LFCS Edinburgh University Scotland