How to examine the inheritance of a class?

Fuzzyman fuzzyman at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 07:52:35 EDT 2008


On Oct 24, 7:27 pm, Derek Martin <c... at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:59:46AM +1000, James Mills wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:36 AM, John Ladasky <lada... at my-deja.com> wrote:
> > > etc.  The list of subclasses is not fully defined.  It is supposed to
> > > be extensible by the user.
>
> > Developer. NOT User.
>
> It's a semantic argument, but John's semantics are fine.  A library is
> code intended to be consumed by developers.  The developers *are* the
> users of the library.  *End users* use applications, not libraries.


Except in the case of user scripting where end users of your
applications may well be using your APIs. :-)

Michael Foord

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