From: Luigi Ballabio <luigi.ballabio@...>
Date: 2003-03-11T01:04:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [Swig-dev] Limited Support for Multiple Inheritance in  SWIG/Ruby

At 03:41 PM 3/10/03 +0000, lyle@knology.net wrote:
>We'd like to be able to provide support for a kind of "limited" multiple
>inheritance in SWIG's Ruby module.

(snip)

>The simplest solution so far seems to be to override Derived's
>#method_missing method, something like this (pseudocode):
>
>     class Derived
>       def method_missing(mth, *args)
>         for each base other than Base1
>           see if this base can handle it
>         end
>         super # call Object#method_missing
>       end
>     end
>
>but I haven't tried to implement this yet.
>
>Can someone else point out the flaws in this, and/or suggest other
>possibilities?

Lyle,
         you surely thought of it already---I'm just wondering what the 
reason was for discarding the possibility. How about mixins?

Bye,
         Luigi