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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:40:33 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory
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> Finally, to argue that files are not objects seems silly.  They ARE
> objects.  They have properties.  They have well defined interfaces for
> manipulating those properties.  A more reasonable argument may be that
> they are not object oriented since they lack certain prerequisites such
> as inheritance and abstraction, both mechanisms of extensibility.

so files are non-object-oriented objects?

i bet you can't say that without smiling.

- erik