Re: Clean Object Class Design -- Circle/Ellipse

bbadour_at_golden.net (Bob Badour) wrote:

>"S Perryman" <q_at_deja.com> wrote in message news:<9pc243$hosvc$1_at_ID-75294.news.dfncis.de>...
>> >I find it very telling that almost every OO pundit has found it
>> >necessary to write an apologia explaining why the very real and
>> >natural subtype/supertype relationship between circle and ellipse
>> >does not apply in OO.
>>
>> Who are these "pundits" to whom you refer ??
>> I have seen certain people show a fundamental misunderstanding of the
>> problem, and then fall prey to that misunderstanding.
>>
>> But "apologia" ... ??
>
>Meyer, Stroustrup, Rumbaugh to name three.

Where specifically? I've read much of Stroustrup and Rumbaugh and I've never seen any such "apologia".

Elliott

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