Re: Inheritance/defaulting of attributes

Paul Prescod (papresco@technologist.com)
Wed, 08 Oct 1997 17:06:26 -0400

Martin Bryan wrote:
> Firstly let me pick up on the name question. Because of the preconceived
> ideas that programmers have about what inheritance and subclassing involves
> I would love to get away from these terms. I really liked the term
> >Environmental Acquisition
> defined in
> > http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~david/Papers/Tech_Reports/lpcr9507.PS.gz
> >in:
> > http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~david/publications.html

I've figured out why you like this term so much. You're in conflict of
interest. Your book is referenced in the paper. :)

Paul Prescod