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Re: A&S Footnote (Re: records)
Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@linux.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> writes:
> Delegation normally means that a service is not implemented here but
> by another class' object.
In a pure delegation-based system, there are no classes.
This "simplification" is supposed to be the main advantage
of "delegation" instead of "inheritance".
> As far as I know Smalltalk does this.
No, Smalltalk is a traditional inheritance-based language;
it has classes.
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