From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-06-14T04:54:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:

> I don't see how your example is any different than the problem presented by
> nested includes.  The ordering of ancestors and thus the resolution of
> method lookup is well defined in either case, no?

yes.  the problem is that mixin modules, by design, seldom have name
collisions with important instance methods, while mixin classes, if they
existed, always would.  it's a matter of degrees.

regards.

-a
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