home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!chx400!bernina!neptune!santas
- From: santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas)
- Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Methodologies - Class Specifications
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.003813.14404@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch (Mr News)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: spica.inf.ethz.ch
- Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <715276480.1.p00058@mail.psi.net> <PFKEB.92Sep5213354@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 00:38:13 GMT
- Lines: 38
-
-
- In article <PFKEB.92Sep5213354@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> pfkeb@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Paul Kunz) writes:
- >In article <715276480.1.p00058@mail.psi.net> p00058@mail.psi.net (Ronald C. Schultz) writes:
- >
- >| Class Name: Circle
- >| Description: Ellipse whose major and minor axes are equal
- >| Super Classes: Ellipse
-
- >Nonsense. A Circle is not a *subclass* of Ellipse, it is a *subset*
- >of all possible Ellipses. There's no need to define such a class.
-
- Do you mean that a Circle c is not a subclass of Ellipse?
- If so then you are half correct. c is an instance of the class Circle
- or the class Ellipse. But then I do not see how it is a subset of any of them.
-
- If you say that the Set of Circles is not a subclass of Ellipse,
- I'm wondering on what base you justify such aggression from your side.
-
- >Confusion between subset and subclass is happening here.
-
- Please, elaborate. You seem to consider many disciplines
- as confused, and we are all interested in knowing what the on-going research
- of more than a century has brought into confusion.
-
- Philip Santas
-
- "In an evolving universe those who stand still are really moving backwards"
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- email: santas@inf.ethz.ch Philip Santas
- Mail: Dept. Informatik Department of Computer Science
- ETH-Zentrum Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- CH-8092 Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
- Switzerland
- Phone: +41-1-2547391
-
-
-
-
-