From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T23:41:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Java/C# "interface" in Ruby ?

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 8/11/05, Peter Fitzgibbons <Peter.Fitzgibbons@lakewoodhomes.net>
> wrote:
>> This is a newbie question.
>> Is there anything in Ruby that is equivalent to the Java/C#
>> "interface".
>
> Depends. The standard answer is "thank ghu, no." There are some
> third-party implementations on the RAA, but you don't need them.

Agree.

> Mixins work better than "interfaces" ever will.

I beg to differ here: mixin modules provide implementaitions while
interfaces just define method signatures.  IMHO mixin modules are better
compared to multiple inheritance or reuse.

Kind regards

    robert