From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T13:11:54+09:00
Subject: Re: What's so special about operators, built-in classes and modules?

On Friday 29 July 2005 06:01 pm, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> if A and B inherited from, rather than mixed-in, M and N then the
> 'problem' is what to do with @foobar. �ruby could, as c++ has done,

I see no reason why they couldn't be merged ... in fact, I have a hard time 
imagining not treating them exactly as module inclusion does today.

> it would, however,
> be a 'problem' that we don't currently have - and that c++ and python do.

Python keeps only one copy, just as Ruby currently does with module inclusion.

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