Variable inheritance

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Alex Martelli wrote:
> >    But grey mouse DOES NOT "contains" grey color. The mouse IS really grey
> > thing, hence I used inheritance.
>
> Not a good example IMHO.  This is a typical misuse of 'IS', the
> kind that got Korzibsky to rant justifiedly against 'the IS of
> identity'.  Good examples are those where something *BEHAVES*
> in a certain way.  _Behavior_ is chiefly what you want to use
> inheritance for

   But of course! For the sake of brevity I skipped all behavioral code,
but of course ColorThings have methods, so if one defines GreyMouse s/he's
got behavior of both Mouse (as an Animal) and Grey (as a ColorThing).

Oleg.
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