is Missing multiple inheritance in sqeak a drawback ?

David Griswold squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Tue Oct 15 20:29:07 UTC 2002


Nathanael Schaerli <n.schaerli at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hey
>
> >
> > If anyone is interested in adding mixins to Squeak, I can
> > help explain what would have to be done.  It's not that hard!
> >
>
> I just wanted to let you know that I have implemented a
> mixin-like model
> (called "traits") in Squeak. I said "mixin-like" because the
> model does
> not exactly match the one developed by Gilad Bracha, but it serves the
> exact same purpose. The model lies kind of inbetween mixins
> and multiple
> inheritance, but in my eyes, it exhibits better composition properties
> than both of them.
> In addition to the kernel extension, I also adapted the
> browser so that
> it supports programming with traits.
>
> I hope to be able to release a first version of my work, soon.
>
> Nathanael

Great! I look forward to seeing it!

-Dave





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