From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T05:53:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Mixins vs. Multiple Inheritance

"Jason Voegele" <jason@jvoegele.com> wrote in
....
> * Mixes in all methods from M into C
> * Results in C#is_a?(M) to be true
> * Does not resolve name collisions
>
> how is mixing in multiple modules really any different from standard
> multiple inheritance?
>
> I suspect that it has something to do with repeated (i.e. "diamond")
> inheritance structures, but I don't see how modules resolve this issue
> either.
>
> What are your thoughts?

My first thought would be to search comp.lang.ruby on  Google-news
using key words like 'mixin' `multiple inheritance'  and `module'. Other
good key words  might be `transitive' and `cyclic' and `MI'.

My second thought is that that the question is too board and imprecise.
For example, the MI-model of a recent Python is different from C++
so ...

/Christoph