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Design vs. Implementation

Posted by Dave Andrews on 02 Nov 1998, 11:43 AM

> From a strictly DESIGN point of view (ignore reality),
> what are the reasons you should not use composition?

I'm curious what you feel the boundaries are for design vs. implementation/reality. In general, I'm finding that different people sometimes have wildly different ideas of what 'design' means.