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Beef looks neat; way better than Rust.

Please don't call inline functions mixins; that word has an established meaning in OOP.

Well, they are not functions and they are not macros. It seemed appropriate to overload the 'mixin' name, but it's not too late to find a better name.

Even if Beef supported class mixins, I would say "there's class mixins and method mixins". D does something similar with template mixins vs a mixin statement that compiles strings as code.

Try “Inline”?

To me, an "inlined" method already has a specific meaning -- it's a type of optimization that does not infer a semantic difference to a normal method.

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