On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Martijn van Steenbergen <mart...@van.steenbergen.nl> wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> IIRC James Gosling once said that if he were to design Java today he would >> leave out classes. I suppose partly due to many of the issues with "data >> inheritance". > > This sounds interesting. Can you link us to an article, please?
I actually managed to find it again :-) http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2003/jw-0801-toolbox.html It seems I was wrong in my assumption about "data inheritance", "implementation inheritance" is just as evil. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus@therning.org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe