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| Subject | Newbie confused: What is purpose of mixins? | |||||||||||||||||||||
| From | Lynn Allan <l_d_allan@adelphia.net> | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:01:45 -0600 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Newsgroups | digitalmars.D | |||||||||||||||||||||
<alert comment="newbie"> I am unsure what problem or purpose "mixins" are designed to address. I've read the D specs and looked over numerous newsgroup postings. I've used C++ templates and multiple inheritance, and Java interfaces. Mixins seem related to these concepts, but it hasn't registered in my brain why I would use mixins. I can more or less grasp the syntax of declaring mixins with the example code, but I don't understand their purpose. Are their previous postings or links to articles to give a fuller explanation to this ... in comprehensible English? (rather than excerpts from Phd papers ... "On one hand, the ontologies we develop during domain analysis tend to involve classes that inherit from multiple parents.") Could the D spec page for mixins have links to such information about the purpose of mixins? </alert> | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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