Yep, I thought of Java interfaces versus the single "implementation" parent.

I was thinking of going further. First of all, support Date & Darwen's inheritance model (which is all about inheriting attributes) which includes MI. Define implementation inheritance to not cause the inheritance of implementation. This is what Java interfaces, and chromatic's proposal suggest. Finally, forbid inheritance of interfaces from implementation parents! This last bit is what I think may be a new idea (or at least not present in C++, Java, and certainly not Perl).

I do think calling it implementation inheritance is a bit confusing, since you're really inheriting attributes (or properties). The actual internal implementation may or may not change in the subclass.

So if you had a class Car that inherited implementation from WheeledLandVehicle (which may in turn have inherited from some other class), it'd have to provide access to certain attributes such as weight, manufacturer, number_of_wheels, and so forth.

Interface-wise, Car might inherit interfaces such as Steerable, CanChangeVelocity, Breakable, and so on.

I should also point out that in the model I'm thinking of, nothing would preclude inheriting both interface and attributes from the same class, which is obviously going to be a common need. But at the same time, when you don't need, or want, to do that, you wouldn't have to.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Class::Interface -- isa() Considered Harmful by autarch
in thread Class::Interface -- isa() Considered Harmful by chromatic

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