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- From: Bob Hathaway <objsys@netcom.com>
- Subject: Re: O.M() versus M(O) notation
- Message-ID: <5+0m0jp.objsys@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 03:26:47 GMT
- Organization: Object Systems
- References: <1992Aug5.162329.22871@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1992Aug16.212818.29943@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug16.212818.29943@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, johnson@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ralph Johnson) writes:
- >The purpose of an abstract class is NOT supposed to be to represent
- >an interface. An abstract class represents a skeleton for a class.
- >It is a class that is to be used ONLY by subclassing. A subclass
- >designer creates a subclass by filling in the 'holes', i.e. by
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- I told you Piercarlo that people wouldn't like it if you tried to take
- away their abstract classes!-)
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- bob
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