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Re: CHALLENGE: heterogeneous collections

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 22:35
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According to objtch@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Peter Goodall):
>I have written a Smalltalk application which will unload fairly arbitary
>recursive objects to an append only Stream (pipe).

But not _totally_ arbitrary objects, because the objects so dumped
must understand a dumpTo: method, right?

C++ can easily solve this problem using multiple inheritance, virtual
functions, and vanilla homogenous lists.

Next contestant?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
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Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: heterogeneous collections
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Date: 27 Mar 91 22:35:09 GMT
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