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Re: CHALLENGE: heterogeneous collections

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From: David S. Masterson
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1991 03:05
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>>>>> On 26 Mar 91 23:17:31 GMT, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) said:

Peter> In article <26714:Mar2602:52:1891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Peter> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

Dan> So: What use can anyone make of a heterogeneous list?

Peter> Message queue for a real-time operating system?

Every message in the queue would be a member of the class Message, no?
Therefore, this would be a homogeneous queue.  As Chip said, next contestant.

;-)
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