From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T13:45:36+09:00
Subject: Re: The Case for Multiple-Inheritance

On 10/8/07, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/8/07, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> If that's what you've taken out of the discussion, then you need to work
> on your reading comprehension.

I smell defensiveness.  Maybe I need to work on being more hard-core
like yourself.

Todd