From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-02-19T04:49:04+09:00
Subject: Re: More flexible inheritance


On Feb 17, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Trans wrote:

> A notion came to me yesterday with regards to how we extend classes.
> On the one hand we can create a module and include it into a class,
> but this will not allow us to override a preexisting method -- for
> that we must reopen the class and play the alias and/ or binding game.

Why not just use a subclass?  Isn't that one of the primary motivations
for inheritance in the first place, to override a method in an ancestor?

Gary Wright