From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-26T12:44:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How are mixins better than multiple inheritance?

Hi,

In message "How are mixins better than multiple inheritance?"
    on 04/05/26, Bill Atkins <dejaspam@batkins.com> writes:

|Can anyone explain how Ruby's mixin system is better than regular
|multiple inheritance?  What's the difference between:

Mix-in is no better than multiple inheritance, because mix-in is just a
usage of multiple inheritance.  You can do mix-in by multiple
inheritance.  Ruby forces mix-in to make it hard to "abuse" multiple
inheritance.

							matz.