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Part II

SCALAR TYPES, SINGLE INHERITANCE

As explained in Chapter 4, our inheritance model consists of a total of 28 IM prescriptions. Part II of the book (nine chapters) discusses the first 20 of those prescriptions and explains their significance for what might be called “the base case,” involving scalar types only and single inheritance only.

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