From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2001-08-08T16:30:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19358] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Parrot, can Ruby play too?)

Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:
> Ruby has this thing called "mixins" that afaik is not in Python (unless
> it's quite recent) and is not in Perl. 

You can 'sort of' do mixins with perl 

    BEGIN {
        do "Module.pm" || die "Couldn't load module";
    }

just make sure that 'Module.pm' doesn't have a package declaration. As
you can no doubt see from its cumbersome syntax, mixins are not
generally used within perl.

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Piers Cawley
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