From: PA Date: 2005-01-30T03:29:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Ten Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby On Jan 29, 2005, at 19:23, Lothar Scholz wrote: > A Bird is a Bird if it can "drink" and if it can "eat". > Then isn't the typecast maybe correct ? It could indeed be perfectly correct if Pig is derived from Bird. Then you could easily have flying pigs. I would love to see such taxonomy though 8^) Cheers -- PA, Onnay Equitursay http://alt.textdrive.com/