From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-02-12T01:22:45+09:00
Subject: Re: inheriting from base classes

Hi --

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Chris Pine wrote:

> `kind_of?' integrity is important, in my opinion; it's totally fundamental
> to the whole idea of the inheritance heirarchy.

But a further question is: how fundamental is the inheritance hierarchy
to designing programs in Ruby, given the non-kind_of? underpinnings of
Ruby objects (i.e., their dynanism and "in-the-moment" behavior)?

I keep thinking back to a comment by Matz, in the midst of a related
discussion:

  I feel you're relying too much on inheritance hierarchy.  In Ruby,
  it's at best implementation sharing.

(ruby-talk:19878)


David

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