From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-11-30T20:02:45+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Hi,

In message "Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?"
    on 03/11/30, "T. Onoma" <transami@runbox.com> writes:

|Modules are strange beasts in that they serve at least three puposes. They can 
|be used as mixins using include, in which case they act as "pseudo" 
|superclasses; they can be used to extend an object, in which case the become 
|a singleton class, and thirdly they sever as simple namespaces.
|
|Quite a heavy load for the a single contruct, ey? Oh, four! They are also the 
|foundation of Class!

It will not be changed.  Ruby will remain being Ruby even after Ruby2.
Perhaps some next generation language would have constructs for each
role.

							matz.