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- From: js@montaigne.lif.icnet.uk (Jack Shirazi <js@biu.icnet.uk>)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Inheritance of Smalltalk
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:29:18 -0000
- Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund
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- References: <1993Jan26.150808.62839@qut.edu.au>
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- In article <1993Jan26.150808.62839@qut.edu.au> bub@qut.edu.au writes:
- >Is any one there can tell me if Smalltalk/v windows has the capacity of
- >multiple inheritance? What about ParcPlace's Smalltalk in windows?
-
- As far as I know, no implementation of smalltalk has proper multiple
- inheritance (you can always reimplement doesNotUnderstand: to send
- the message on to one of the instance variables for a kind of multiple
- inheritance). I remember reading that several groups have looked at
- implementing multiple inheritance in the image, but all have given up
- after finding that the effort wasn't worth it. Personally, I think it
- would be a useful addition to Smalltalk, but having thought about ways
- of implementing it, I realize that it would take more effort than I have
- available. Anyone out there trying?
- --
- Jack js@biu.icnet.uk
-
- If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- -- Maslow
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