Implement a class with mixins

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Sun May 7 11:45:18 PDT 2006


Frank Benoit wrote:
> Does a protected inheritance make sense in a language without multiple
> inheritance? Inherit private is for a "implemented with" relation. And
> this is perhaps better made with the mixin feature.
> 
> But to use mixins like base classes for implementation, mixins are
> missing a Ctor ( and DTor ) integration. It should be possible for a
> mixin to have a Ctor which is automatically called while the object is
> contructed. Or it can be called manually ( with args ) from the class ctor.

It would be great if there were an easy way to make this work.  As it 
is, I have to know in advance something is intended to be a mixin and 
create separate methods for this.  For a somewhat more complicated 
example, I use the technique here:

http://www.home.f4.ca/sean/d/stream.d


Sean



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