Why general inheritance is flawed and how to finally fix it

Re:Why general inheritance is flawed and how to finally fix it by iainmerrick on Monday December 13, 2021 @05:41AM (#29538405)

I wish more languages (in fact, any popular languages!) had convenient syntax for this.

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Re:Why general inheritance is flawed and how to finally fix it by pjmlp on Monday December 13, 2021 @10:14AM (#29540279)

Dynamic languages have it, via "doesNotUnderstand" and similar.

Kotlin also provides a way similar to those COM variants,

Best support is probably MOP in Common Lisp, I guess.

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Re:Why general inheritance is flawed and how to finally fix it by iainmerrick on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:58AM (#29541424)

The Kotlin version is pretty much what I had in mind, that's pretty nice.

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Re:Why general inheritance is flawed and how to finally fix it by CRConrad on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:36AM (#29580103)

Any time one dares to defend Pascal's "with" statement, a shitstorm starts...

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