On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:36:07 -0700, Alan Lovejoy  
<squeak-dev.sourcery at forum-mail.net> wrote:

> Blake> I'm intrigued by the question of "is inheritance necessary"
>
> Perhaps a better question would be "Is inheritance optimal?"  Or even
> better: "When is inheritance optimal, and when is it not? And when it  
> isn't,
> what alternatives are better?"
>
> --Alan

Well, yeah, I was just shooting for brevity rather than technical  
precision.<s>

I don't know how other people work, but when I learn a new programming  
technique, I push it till it breaks. I'm looking forward to testing traits  
out thoroughly.