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Re: Discovering all sub-classes via introspection? [message #171510 is a reply to message #171509] Fri, 07 January 2011 03:40 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 1/6/2011 10:38 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> Given a class, is there a way to find all the classes which extend it?

No. There is no way to know if ANY class extends it, unless the class
has been instantiated.

A basic concept of OO programming - derived classes know about the base
class, but base classes don't know anything about derived classes.

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