From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-09-03T18:58:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20766] Re: how access inheritance chain after  class creation?


In message "[ruby-talk:20760] how access inheritance chain after  class creation?"
    on 01/09/03, "Henning von Rosen" <henning@ikso.net> writes:

|when a class is already created; how do I add/change to the inheritance
|chain?
|
|Is the answer to the need for prolonged/dynamic class-creation:
|
|(1) mix-in!
|(2) change to Python!
|(3) ?
|
|if this is a stupid question, why?

If you really need to do it, Python would be a good choice.  But
ironically, it's due to Python's class/type separation, which is going
to be merged in the future version.  Plus, I don't believe you really
need to change the class hierarchy.

							matz.