From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-11-30T21:45:58+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

On Sunday 30 November 2003 12:02 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

You pegged me wrong Matz! It is not that I want them to, per se.  I was just 
pointing it out.

-t0