From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-07-28T12:16:40+09:00
Subject: Re: What's so special about operators, built-in classes and modules?

On Jul 27, 2005, at 9:57 PM, Devin Mullins wrote:

> What would be bad about allowing the include method to take Classes  
> in addition to Modules? (And to keep everything else the same,  
> including the distinction between subclassing (via "<") and mixin- 
> ing (via "include").)
>
> If nothing, then what would be the reason to keep Modules around?

My opinion is that it's good to have two different types there, if  
only for distinction.  I can imagine the questions of, "Did I include  
that class or just inherit from it?"

That's just my opinion though.

James Edward Gray II