From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-02-12T01:39:24+09:00
Subject: Re: inheriting from base classes

> 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)?


Are you saying here that because it's easy to not do strict kind-of?
modelling in ruby, that you shouldn't?  Or that existing classes in
ruby don't do it, so end users shouldn't have to?  Or something else?

Your previous post seemed to indicate you break the kind-of? "rule of
thumb" where it becomes convenient to save typing, which I think is
not the way it should be done.  not that I've never done the same
thing, but we're at a more conceptual level with this discussion. 
(Or are we?  maybe that's a disconnect.)



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