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Re: more closed-world chatter

From: Jon Heggland <jon.heggland_at_idi.ntnu.no>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 08:51:54 +0200
Message-ID: <f1ju1j$qni$1@orkan.itea.ntnu.no>


Marshall wrote:
> On May 5, 8:50 am, Jon Heggland <jon.heggl..._at_idi.ntnu.no> wrote:

>>> when it comes to the advantage of sub-typing in dealing with
>>> my question.
>> I don't know about "advantage"; I just don't see how you can avoid it.

>
> It's easy to avoid: just don't put subtying in the language design.

I didn't mean how to avoid subtyping per se; I meant how to avoid it if you want to be able to join on attributes with different types.

-- 
Jon
Received on Sun May 06 2007 - 01:51:54 CDT

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