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[Marco Serantoni <marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/set/2010, at 21.50, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>> 
>> We could use a "base library" that is referred from "specific parts library" as "father" using its symbol like classes (inherance).
>> So who wants heavy libraries has its parts, who keeps its library light has its part fallbacking to the father.
>> 
> 
> Inheritance.  hmmm.  Why not just *copy* symbol by symbol and make each
> copied symbol into a part-specific component in a new project specific
> library. 

Because we have load the same symbol multiple times, wasting in large libraries a lot of memory , so i'm suggesting a pointer to base symbols.

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Marco