Type/Class Unification in Ruby

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GE" == Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at compaq.com> writes:

    GE> A middle ground might be to allow inheriting from any number
    GE> of user-defined classes, but at most one built-in type.

And in fact, this is exactly the JPython restriction.  Because Java
has only single inheritance, a JPython class can only have a single
Java base class, but any number of pure Python base classes.

-Barry