From: Helder Ribeiro <helder@...>
Date: 2007-01-24T00:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: inheritance concept in ruby

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> I don't think anyone came up with a strictly technical, bullet-proof
> objection to class/module unification when Mathieu was advocating it.
> Basically, if all the modules in the lookup-path were, instead,
> classes, I don't think anything we can do now would be impossible
> (assuming the lookup rules were preserved).  In that sense the
> presence of the difference is more a matter of semantic enrichment
> than technical extension.

Perfect! That was exactly what I was beginning to think. You summed it
up very well :-)

Thanks a lot, David!

Cheers,

Helder