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Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 21:32:13 +1100
Subject: Re: Classes
From: Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com>
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On 2 November 2014 20:50, Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The question (I thought) was to write a class for Square that inherited a
> class Rectangle but imposed on it the additional constraints of a square
> over a rectangle, namely that length == width.
>

I'm late to the party and this has already been partially addressed in the
thread, but it always annoys me. A square is as much a rhombus with 90
degree angles as it is a rectangle with equal length and width, and yet I
*never* see the former given as an option.

If course, that's probably because rectangles have a multitude of uses for
user interfaces, whilst other quadrilaterals are somewhat less useful.

Tim Delaney

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