Re: Clean Object Class Design -- Circle/Ellipse

"Universe" <universe_at_NOdirectvSPAMinternet.com> wrote in message news:dhavrt022tsgncm9kphs4f84eeh05lcfhd_at_4ax.com...
> bbadour_at_golden.net (Bob Badour) wrote:
>
> >"S Perryman" <q_at_deja.com> wrote in message
news:<9pc243$hosvc$1_at_ID-75294.news.dfncis.de>...
> >> >I find it very telling that almost every OO pundit has found it
> >> >necessary to write an apologia explaining why the very real and
> >> >natural subtype/supertype relationship between circle and ellipse
> >> >does not apply in OO.
> >>
> >> Who are these "pundits" to whom you refer ??
> >> I have seen certain people show a fundamental misunderstanding of the
> >> problem, and then fall prey to that misunderstanding.
> >>
> >> But "apologia" ... ??
> >
> >Meyer, Stroustrup, Rumbaugh to name three.
>
> Where specifically? I've read much of Stroustrup and Rumbaugh and
> I've never seen any such "apologia".

Go to http://www.google.com/

In the little box, type:
  stroustrup circle ellipse
and click on the "Google Search" pushbutton.

In the little box, type:
  bertrand meyer circle ellipse
and click on the "Google Search" pushbutton.

In the little box, type:
  rumbaugh circle ellipse
and click on the "Google Search" pushbutton.

>
> Elliott
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Received on Mon Oct 08 2001 - 09:03:16 CEST