[moby] [MOBY-dev] Re: API Change/Recommendation/Best-Practice/Meme Proposal

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 09:50 -0600, Paul Gordon wrote:

>     We are talking about decomposition. What you are talking about is 
> inheritence. 

Yes, but I'm just saying that the *current* behaviour that Heiko was
objecting to is due to inheritence, and the behaviour can be switched
off if it is *immediately* troublesome.

Of course, it will also disappear if we start to use a composition model
rather than an inheritence model to put e.g. strings into objects, but
that doesn't help anyone in the short-term.

M
 



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