From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T12:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: The Case for Multiple-Inheritance

On 10/8/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/8/07, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/8/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Wrong. Look VERY CAREFULLY at your code, Trans. How many of your modules
> > > are used in more than one place?
> > >
> > > If the answer is few, then you're doing it wrong and you're introducing
> > > negative consequences in terms of maintainability, while not actually
> > > increasing reuse. Most methods are specific behaviour for a given state.
> > > Pretending that by extracting that into modules that youre increasing
> > > reuse is nonsense. Unless you're actually reusing the code, you're not
> > > increasing reuse.
> >
> > Here I have to disagree. This is from some actual code I've written:
>
> [snip]

[double snip]

I would, I think, do it differently than either of you.  I suppose I'm
wrong then?

Todd