= Matriarch

• http://rubyworks.github.com/matriarch
• http://github.comd/rubyworks/matriarch

== DESCRIPTION:

Matriarch is an experimental implementation of trait matricies. Trait matricies can be thought of as a linked grid of method nodes, like linked lists but each node is connected in one direction to it's super and sub methods, and in the other with its fellow categorical set, something akin to a module.

Please keep in mind this library is far from any sort of full working order, and is provided "AS IS" primarily as means to further exploration into the concept of trait matricies.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• Very flexible inheritance system
• Experimental implementation

== RELEASE NOTES:

Please see HISTORY file.

== SYNOPSIS:

Matriarch uses +to+ instead of +def+ to define method nodes. This was done simply becuase it was much easier to code then using Ruby's #method_added hook.

class C < Matriarch::TraitsObject to :x do "C#x" end to :s do self end end

c = C.new

c.x.assert == "C#x"

See the RDocs for more information.

== INSTALLATION:

Per the usual RubyGems:

$ sudo gem install matriarch

== LICENSE:

(LGPL v3 License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Thomas Sawyer

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.