From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-02-04T22:03:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheritance in other notation

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:

> The constant Square is a class effectively equivalent to conventionally created classes, so you don't have to do anything special to make Rectangle descend from it. Just do it as you originally expected:
>
> class Rectangle < Square
>  ...
> end

Which leaves us with the "minor" issue that a rectangle _is not_ a
square - it's the other way round.  Yeah, I know, implementation
inheritance vs. conceptual inheritance.  But OP should be aware of
this.

Kind regards

robert


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