Re: How do I retrieve the 'type' of an object

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* muppet <scott asofyet org> [2004-06-07 12:44]:
> what aristotle said, that you don't want to differentiate by
> types, is true; that breaks the ability to use subclasses of
> things.  in this situation, though, polymorphism will require
> multiple inheritance, 

No, it doesn't. You should simply stick your methods in the
existing base class package. (Ruby calls it mixins and in Perl6
we will be doing that routinely.) Subclassing would be advisable
if you were doing this for a module, but isn't particularly
useful in an app. In that situation only likely breakage is with
future versions of the class library, but then future versions of
the class library are bound to break a lot more anyway.

-- 
Regards,
Aristotle
 
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