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What it aggregation

Posted by Gene Smith on 05 Nov 1998, 1:21 PM

I'm still not sure I understand aggregation. If I instantiate
an object and hand out references to it then it's aggregation
as opposed to composition, right? If so, what happens to the
references/pointers if the instantiating class goes away in
C++ and Java?

Gene

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