I object to the use of the term "inheritance" here. It's a bit more like PHP's traits - https://secure.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php https://secur

I object to the use of the term "inheritance" here. It's a bit more like PHP's traits - https://secure.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php https://secure.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php Ruby's mixins are a bit similar as well - http://culttt.com/2015/07/08/working-with-mixins-in-ruby/ http://culttt.com/2015/07/08/working-with-mixins-in-ruby/ Think of it as language-assisted copy paste.