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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,

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/delegation.html#overriding-a-mem...

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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