Does it make sense to remove slots ?

Tim Moore Timothy at Moore.name
Sun Nov 7 14:38:34 PST 2004


On Nov 7, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Pupeno wrote:

> Je Dimanĉo Novembro 7 2004 18:40, Tim Moore skribis:
>> That is a good point, but in this case the question boils down to: why
>> do you want to make Circle derive from Ellipse at all? Is it to 
>> inherit
>> behavior? I think for most people, it is just because they know that
>> geometrically a circle is a kind of ellipse, so they feel it should be
>> a subtype.
> For me... I made it to inherit founctionality... so, the methods don't 
> have to
> be re-written for Circle, since they are written for Ellipse.
>

I guess the better question would have been: why extend ellipse with 
circle? But since you've already changed that, it's a pretty academic 
discussion at this point. :-)
-- 
Tim Moore




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