hi,
what is the preferred terminology for pike documentation:
parent and child class super and subclass base and derived class
?
i am kinda leaning towards parent/child.
greetings, martin.
I'd go with base and derived. The word "parent" gets me thinking of parent pointers, and that is a whole other beehive than just common run-of-the-mill one class inherits another. (Superclass and subclass would do fine too, of course; just expressing my preferences, here.)
I'm fond of super/subclass myself, as it's used by a number of technologies I deal with on a regular basis.
Out of curiosity, what does the documentation use currently?
Bill
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Johan Sundstr�m (Achtung Liebe!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
I'd go with base and derived. The word "parent" gets me thinking of parent pointers, and that is a whole other beehive than just common run-of-the-mill one class inherits another. (Superclass and subclass would do fine too, of course; just expressing my preferences, here.)
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