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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Classes |
| Date | 2014-11-02 11:31 -0500 |
| Organization | IISS Elusive Unicorn |
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 12:27:06 +0000 (UTC), Denis McMahon
<denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:32:13 +1100, Tim Delaney wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>And perhaps that also addresses the square - rectangle (or circle -
>ellipse) issue - square, rectangle and rhombus are all forms of
>quadrilateral, and perhaps should all inherit a base class Quadrilateral,
>rather than trying (and partially failing) to inherit each other.
I'd class them as parallelograms -- as they differ from a trapezoid in
that opposite faces are parallel... Not to mention "arrow heads" where two
adjacent sides actually bend inwards.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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