Re: more closed-world chatter
From: David Cressey <cressey73_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 09:57:11 GMT
Message-ID: <XDh%h.3756$XG1.2460_at_trndny07>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 09:57:11 GMT
Message-ID: <XDh%h.3756$XG1.2460_at_trndny07>
"Jon Heggland" <jon.heggland_at_idi.ntnu.no> wrote in message
news:f1ju1j$qni$1_at_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
(Maybe I should have said "conversion functions" instead of "casting functions".) Received on Sun May 06 2007 - 11:57:11 CEST