We are writing a paper on that, it should be ready at the end of the 
month.
We explain there all the problems of mixins composition and the fact 
that the mixin glue is spread among too much classes.

On jeudi, novembre 7, 2002, at 09:51  am, Marcel Weiher wrote:

>
> On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 07:18  Uhr, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>
>> Traits are really cool because they scale much more than mixins and 
>> allow
>> reuse a la multiple inheritance without the problem of multiple 
>> inheritance.
>
> Can you explain?
>
> I thought mixins allowed reuse a la multiple inheritance without the 
> problems?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcel
>
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