From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-10-08T00:44:26+09:00
Subject: Re: The Case for Multiple-Inheritance

On 10/7/07, Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@polytechnique.org> wrote:
> > Delegation does not mean duck typing.  You are confusing your
> > terminology.
> Tell me if I'm wrong, but from a type point of view, delegation is only
> usable in the context of duck-typing. If you don't think as 'my type is
> defined as what messages I'm able to answer to', then you cannot replace
> one object with one delegator since they won't have the same type.

It's possible to use delegation with non-dynamic languages. Hard, but possible.

-austin
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