Seriously, can you justify a real world example where this cannot be replaced with a simpler concept?

Of course multiple inheritance CAN be replaced by decomposition and delegation -- for that matter you could do it all without method calls, or in COBOL -- the question is whether your code would end up being better as a result.

My contention is that controlled use of multiple inheritance is a reasonable technique for a developer to use, and more specifically that this implementation is a workable solution for cases where you'd like to extend an object through subclassing, and need the ability to use several subclasses at once.

The example I was using was from the real world -- Text::MicroMason. Using stackable mixins lets users select which features they want to enable, with relatively little overhead... If you see a better way to handle this, patches would be welcome.

In reply to Re^2: Stacking Mixin Classes at Run-time with Class::MixinFactory by simonm
in thread Stacking Mixin Classes at Run-time with Class::MixinFactory by simonm

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