From: dblack@...
Date: 2005-12-15T13:16:07+09:00
Subject: Re: can someone improve on this multiple inheritence methodology?

Hi --

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

>
> this provide method re-use at both the class and module level.  it can be 
> used
> for a kind of multiple inheritence organizational style.
>
>    harp:~ > cat a.rb
>    class Module
>      def inherit other

My main suggestion would be to rename this method.  I don't think this
is an inheritance operation.  At least, it seems potentially confusing
to "inherit" a module, since inheritance already means something else
and modules already do other things.


David

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