Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: > Carl Banks wrote: > > That's not what we mean by composition. Composition is when one > > object calls upon another object that it owns to implement some of > > its behavior. Often used to model a part/whole relationship, hence > > the name. > > Hmmm. Okay -- any ideas for a better term? Something that describes > taking different source classes and fusing them into a new whole, > possibly using single-inheritance... Frankenstein, maybe? ;)
(Remember that Frankenstein was not the monster, but the scientist.) “Hybrid”? -- \ “If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly | `\ owned if it is not shared.” —Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
