ALU capability (was Re: [E-Lang] Authority -- what is its dual?)

[Bill Frantz]

At 1:40 AM -0700 10/19/01, Dean Tribble wrote:
>Inheritance is mostly independent of object-ness--it isprimarily a
>code-sharing hack :-)

In the spirit of nit picking: :-)

Some languages, such as Java, use inheritance as a necessary part of their
type system.  Others, such as E, do not.

[Comments on method vs. interface inheritance mercifully omitted.]

Cheers - Bill


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