 Hopefully we will have this written up fairly soon; but in the 
&gt; meantime, relax. It is OK to say that a class is a subclass of itself.

Pat means "member of itself" rather than "subclass of itself" here, of
course.  Not that what he actually wrote is *false*, just uninteresting!

-chris

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