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Inheritance stipulates that an object can learn about its behavior
from its superclasses via an *inheritance hierarchy*.
*Acquisition*, on the other hand, stipulates that an object can
additionally learn about its behavior its through its *containment
hierarchy*. In Zope, an object's inheritance hierarchy is always
searched for behavior before its acquisition hierarchy. If the
method or attribute is not found in the object's inheritance
hierarchy, the acquisition hierarchy is searched.
% Anonymous User - Nov. 27, 2003 1:44 am:
ERROR: ...about its behavior *its* through its....
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