On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 11:31:12 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 12:27:06 +0000 (UTC), Denis McMahon
> <denismfmcma...@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>
>>On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:32:13 +1100, Tim Delaney wrote:
>>> If course, that's probably because rectangles have a multitude of uses
>>> for user interfaces, whilst other quadrilaterals are somewhat less
>>> useful.
>>
>>And perhaps that also addresses the square - rectangle (or circle -
>>ellipse) issue - square, rectangle and rhombus are all forms of
>>quadrilateral, and perhaps should all inherit a base class
>>Quadrilateral,
>>rather than trying (and partially failing) to inherit each other.
>
> I'd class them as parallelograms -- as they differ from a
trapezoid in
> that opposite faces are parallel... Not to mention "arrow heads" where
> two adjacent sides actually bend inwards.
So:
Quadrilateral
Parallelogram
Square
Rectangle
Rhombus
Diamond (4 sides eq)
Trapezoid
Arrowhead
Is an arrowhead a trapezoid?
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