In general I favor subtyping versus subclassing.
Now I do not know the exact advantage for address to be a subclass of  
bytestring.

Stef
On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:

> SocketAddress>>printOn: looks like it does some questionable things,  
> but I am fuzzy on what exactly is happening and what should be done  
> about it.  My thought would be that the address should have name and  
> number aspects, that resolving would do the respective lookups, and  
> that inspecting should not attempt the lookups.  Do you agree?  How  
> broken is the implementation?
>
> I cant' say that I am thrilled about addresses being inherited from  
> ByteArray - I suppose it can happily be the address and have an iv  
> for the name, but what if one knows the name and later wants to  
> resolve the number?  This sounds like a job for a subclass of Object  
> with named variables.  Anybody agree or disagree?
>
> Bill
>
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