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Conventional inheritance in its two main
—the 'classical' variant known from languages like Java, Python and others as well as the 'prototypal' variant known mainly from JavaScript—both assert
that it makes sense to 'derive' one object (the 'derivative') from another (its 'antetype')
both to conserve memory and to organize functionalities;
that the only formally supported intentional relationship between a derivative and its antetype should be 'is-a' (to the exclusion of 'has-a', 'uses-a', 'partly-resembles-a' &c);
that the only formally defined extensional relationship between the attributes of a derived object and
those of its antetype should be take-all-or-override-all: either your derivation has an attribute x
or
it doesn't; if it does, it will simply override (shadow) any attribute by the same name in the antetype.
Crucially, the only way to formally derive one object from another is to provide a list of overriding features, period.
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The npm package multimix receives a total of 16 weekly downloads. As such, multimix popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that multimix demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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