From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-06-09T02:51:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?

On Jun 8, 2006, at 12:45 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In message "Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?"
>>    on Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:49:19 +0900, "Alder Green"  
>> <alder.green@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> |I see your and Dblack's point about the need for an #include that
>> |won't inherit the class methods. And I agree that it's probably a  
>> good
>> |idea to keep #include behaving as it does right now. So adding a
>> |separate #inherit seems like a very good idea.
>>
>> I don't like the name #inherit.  Since it is not a inheritance.
>
> i've suggested 'mixin' in the past
>
>   module M
>   end
>
>   class C
>     mixin M
>   end

I like that.

James Edward Gray II