From: Jason Voegele <jason@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T01:13:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Mixins vs. Multiple Inheritance

matz wrote:
> In message "Re: Mixins vs. Multiple Inheritance"
>     on 02/04/03, Bob Hutchison <hutch@xampl.com> writes:
> 
> |Is there someplace that outlines what you can do with multiple
> inheritance |but not mix-ins? I've wondered this many times myself, and
> I suspect the |original question could be answered with that outline.
> 
> You can't inherit from two (or more) concrete classes by mix-in.

True, but I think the question was more along the lines of "How would it be 
any different if you could inherit from two or more concrete classes?".

In other words, what advantages or simplifications are provided by

class Foo; include Bar; include Baz; end

versus

class Foo < Bar, Baz; end

???

Jason Voegele