From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-08-23T07:15:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20129] Re: Another Possible RCR - Wrappers via Mixins

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Stephen White wrote:

> Given this, perhaps mix-ins are a good place to do AOP style wrappers?
> If a mix-in has a method with the same name as the class being mixed
> into, then the mix-in code gets called then super's up.

You're suggesting that mix-ins be added below the class they're being
mixed into, rather than above it.  The main problem I can see with this is
that it prevents the class from overriding methods in the mixin.  However,
it might be interesting to figure out a way of allowing subclass-mixins
as well as superclass-mixins.  It seems like there ought to be a (maybe
inefficient) way of doing this with singleton classes, at least.