Hiya Mark ---

>It's indeed a very big deal. Anyone who says it's not simply has never used a real OOP language for a real project.

You wanna have some fun? Go to a VB board and tell them that they can't be doing OOP because they don't have inheritance and watch the fur fly. VB developers have edited inheritance out of their personal OOP definition because they don't have it....it's a real in-denial issue.