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At 7:49 AM +0800 17/9/98, Paul Prescod wrote: >So to me, "inheritance" between element types would be ... > >Subclassing, on the other hand I think it is extremely dangerous to have different definitions for subclassing vs inheritance. The chance of confusion is way too high. Please use two terms which are less likely to be mixed in communication. A somewhat relevant anecdote - for a year or more I argued that 'aggregation' and 'association' were bad choices of terms in the growing UML standard, due to the chance of confusion. Nobody seemed to get my point, until another discussion on the mailing list led me to realize that Americans prononounce these words with very different leading syllables. Thus the verbal similarity that I perceived (as an Australian of English background) was not there. Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM, Software Designer, A.D. Software, Western Australia OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix & Windows PP2MFC - PowerPlant->MFC portability http://www.highway1.com.au/adsoftware/crossplatform.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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