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Subject: Re: [ubl-ndrsc] XML and Polymorphism
A Gregory wrote:
> Eve:
>
> I've always heard Java interfaces discussed as not really implementing
> "multiple inheritance". Is this the same thing as "polymorphism" in your
> sense of it?
Yes, I think so.
> I agree that "polymorphism" is potentially confusing, but I always thought
> it was somebody else's fait-accompli. What else should we call it, to be
> clearer?
Maybe just inheritance? That's all it is, I think, with the slight
added twist that XML has elements and types (two kinds of constructs)
rather than just classes (one kind of construct).
Eve
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