Re: [ANN] Working drafts by SW Best Practices group -- request for comments

Natasha Noy wrote:
> Actually, I think it is more awkward. Having Simba both as an instance 
> and a subclass of Animal is awkward at best. In some, very rare, 
> circumstances, you could argue that that's what you want (in fact, I've 
> done that myself [1]), but it complicates things significantly, and 
> probably shouldn't be done unless you absolutely have to.

It may complicate things from a theoretical point of view, but I would 
argue that it solves the problem with a minimum amount of triples, and 
without creating a maintenance problem or loosing expressive power.

Looks like we are heading for a computer science versa software 
engineering discussion :-)