On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 02:32:44PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: : Why? A ParrotClass is responsible for the method dispatch. The ParrotObject : inherits that behavior.
In Perl 6 terms we'd prefer to say that ParrotClass "does" the Dispatch role, and so does ParrotObject, but to call it inheritance is misleading. If you want to implement roles internally as a mild form of inheritance, that's okay, but it *will* confuse people, and will have to be explained repeatedly.
Roles are going to get implemented as inheritance--so far I've seen no technical reason not to, and quite a number of reasons to do so. People can cope, if they're looking this deeply.
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