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RE: Parser2 considered harmful

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: "'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:28:18 -0400 (EDT)

Miles Sabin writes:

 > It's not diamond inheritance per-se which is the
 > problem, it's (as you point out) the potential for a
 > combinatorial explosion of derived interfaces which is
 > nasty.

Some concrete examples might be helpful -- I know that the
get/setFeature/Property methods in Parser2 are not a silver bullet,
but under what circumstances might people want to subclass Parser2
further in the future?


Thanks, and all the best,


David

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