Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.beta Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!info.ecf!doylep From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) Subject: Re: Java and Eiffel - Further comments: I am depressed. Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:26:17 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: skule.ecf References: <5hel1s$afv@news-central.tiac.net> <5j2ogd$3lp$1@gjallar.daimi.aau.dk> Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Lines: 17 Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.eiffel:28653 comp.lang.beta:11039 In article <5j2ogd$3lp$1@gjallar.daimi.aau.dk>, > >I agree that Inner classes are a great addition to Java. Inner classes >are, however, not a new idea to object-oriented languages. [explanation of inner classes omitted] So that's what inner classes are. Just another name for nested classes? Even C++ has those. (Not that there's anything wrong with C++, but I would consider it the least theoretically-based, most pragmatically-based OOL I know.) -PD -- -- Patrick Doyle doylep@ecf.utoronto.ca