From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-07-29T19:56:03+09:00
Subject: Re: What's so special about operators, built-in classes and modules?

On Friday 29 July 2005 01:57 am, Daniel Brockman wrote:
> So you agree that the issue of diamond inheritance is
> completely unrelated to the class/module distinction.
>
> Is that correct?

Yes, at least from a non-implementors point of view.  

As Matz has pointed out in another message, there are things going on at an 
implementation level that we don't necessarily see as regular users of Ruby 
that make repeated inheritance tricky (e.g. that fact that an array object is 
a T_ARRAY).

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