From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2006-08-22T06:38:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Does Hash Apparently Reorder Its Internal Representation And Other Associated Ponderings

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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
Interesting. And I've read on this list many times that inheriting from 
a builtin class like Hash is A Bad Thing. Are you saying that I should 
stop feeling guilty for deriving Magick::Image from Array? :-)