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From: donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
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Marky Mark writes:

:Don Harrison <donh@syd.csa.com.au> wrote in article
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
No, it was Bertrand Meyer.

:> :>> 	- A completely consistent type structure, in which 
:> :>> 	  even basic types such as INTEGER are classes,
:> :>> 	  present in the general inheritance structure.
:> :>> 	  (In C++ or Java, for example, the basic types
:> :>> 	  are completely separate from the class and inheritance
:
:Besides, in a hybrid language like C++ you could always have the best of
:both worlds - encapsulating integers as classes or using the intrinsics as
:you'd like.


Don.
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