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HP Integrity NonStop J-Series User Manual

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typesafe, and their objects are slightly larger. These disadvantages are easily outweighed by the
power of these classes, and their clean programming interface. Most importantly, the
Smalltalk-like collection classes are well-suited for heterogeneous collections and polymorphic
persistence.

Many of the Tools.h++ Smalltalk-like classes have a typedef to either the corresponding
Smalltalk names, or to a generic name. This typedef is activated by defining the preprocessor
macro RW_STD_TYPEDEFS. Although you are free to use typedefs, we do encourage you to
use the actual class names to make your code more maintainable.

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