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		languagehacker on Sept 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever ... Yeah, but good luck trying to reuse the same basic instructions to scan non-paper objects without multiple inheritance.

encoderer on Sept 26, 2011 | [–]

See: Mixins, Traits, Apects. Whatever your language wants to call them, they're fundamentally the same, and solve the issue you're raising.

epochwolf on Sept 26, 2011 | | [–]

Ruby does this with mixin modules :)

ori_b on Sept 26, 2011 | [–]

     interface ICopyable {...}

SimHacker on Sept 26, 2011 | [–]

Back in the days at PARC, that was "IXeroxable".

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