Template mixins: Why is the decision to mixin made at the call site?

[Ary Borenszweig]

div0 wrote:
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> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:36 PM, div0<div0 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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>> That's what he's suggesting, and it does make sense.  When you write a
>> template, *either* it's meant to be used as a mixin, *or* it's meant
>> to be used some other way.  Mixin in a template that wasn't meant to
>> be a mixin or vice versa usually makes no sense.
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> Hmmm.
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> Not convinced by that argument, I can think of good reasons to use a
> template as both.

Can you provide an example?