POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Messages vs Methods : Re: Messages vs Methods Server Time
6 Sep 2024 03:15:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Messages vs Methods  
From: Chambers
Date: 27 Feb 2009 22:33:48
Message: <49a8b09c$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/27/2009 3:27 PM, Warp wrote:
>    However, with other inheritance hierarchies you hit some conceptual
> difficulties. For example, if you have a base class named Animal and
> you inherit a class named Dog from it, can you say that "Dog extends
> Animal"? Is a Dog something which does more than an Animal? Technically
> speaking, at the class level, this may be the case, but conceptually it
> makes less sense.

And then you realize that, although we call them "objects," they are 
really just abstract representations of certain pieces of information, 
and not really the objects we think of them as :)
-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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