From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-08-22T04:52:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Does Hash Apparently Reorder Its Internal Representation And Other Associated Ponderings

On 8/21/06, Tim Hunter <sastph@sas.com> wrote:
> Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
> >     Is there a reason why you don't simply inheret from Hash, or is this
> > just another one of those There's More Than One Way To Do It scenarios?
> "Favor composition over inheritance" - Design Patterns
> http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/designprinciples4.html

Which is ... questionable advice in Ruby. Since mixins are a *form* of
inheritance.

-austin
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