Variable inheritance

[James_Althoff at i2.com]

Alex Martelli wrote:
>"Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote in message
>news:t72lgt4h9j3snfdhs08h76rl2o0lq30i45 at 4ax.com...
>>
>> >Can anyone provide an example where MI is used for right purpose,
>> >not just to quickly hack something?
>>
>> Dynamic aggregation and the reuse of interface implementations
>> (ala "mixin based programming," first popularized in the Lisp
>> community, but then propagated about).
>>
>> While this is an irrelevant ad hominem I'm about to state, questions
>> like your are generally posed by programmers from _static_ languages.
>> Python is a _dynamic_ language. This sometimes requires rethink.
>
>Eiffel programmers (happily and multiply inheriting around
>in one of the static-est languages available) will no doubt
>be interested in hearing about this thesis, as will those
>who program in Smalltalk (dynamic to a fault, but SI...:-).
>
>Alex

I agree with Alex.  "Static versus Dynamic" and "MI versus SI" are
orthogonal issues.

Jim