>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Pair <spair at acm.org> writes:

Stephen> Has this been done before?

I believe something like that was how "multiple inheritance" was managed
during that experimental period of the 60s^W80s...
a pseudo class was inserted in the chain containing methods from the
"other" non-traditional chain, and managed transparently.  When classes
were added to the "other" chain, they were copied into the pseudo-class.

I'd hate to have to update 15 entries every time I compiled something
in OrderedCollection, though.  Maybe run-time lookup isn't a bad
thing. :)

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