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- From: gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Graham Matthews)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re-use and OO
- Message-ID: <C0n8J9.F5E@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 15:04:20 GMT
- Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
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- Hi
-
- A while back on this newsgroup there was a discussion about some new OO
- tools that went through a program and optimised it by removing the
- need for objects to store redundant fields that they never used (I think
- that was the purpose of these tools, but I don't remember their name or
- exact purpose). Now there was some fancy name for these - maybe someone
- could add it to the subject line - but I was wondering at whether they
- were something of a band-aid solution. It seemed to me that such a tool
- suggested that somehow code and data re-use was not being supported
- properly. If re-use was being supported properly these redundancies
- would not be in a program and hence the need for such tools would
- disappear. Comments?
-
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- Graham Matthews And it's true we are immune
- Dept Comp Sci, Edinburgh Uni When fact is fiction and T.V.
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