[squeak-dev] Re: A criticism of the Nile paper (was Re: My view on Traits)

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sat May 17 07:47:42 UTC 2008


Victor Rodriguez wrote:
>> If the paper wants to make any claims regarding traits, it really needs to
>> distinguish improvements that are due to traits from general improvements
>> (i.e., improvements that are just as applicable to single-inheritance
>> implementations). Otherwise it is comparing apples to oranges and can't be
>> taken seriously in this regard.
> 
> But there *are* limits to what you can achieve with single
> inheritance.  It is not very hard to come up with an example:

I'm not saying that there aren't any limits to single inheritance. I'm 
saying the paper is comparing apples and oranges and it shouldn't do 
that but rather be clear what improvements are due to the use of MI and 
which aren't.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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