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+// Example of how to document code in written in the style of something
+// like Dean Edwards' base2.js library
+
+
+var Animal = Class.extend({
+	/**
+	 * @constructor Animal
+	 */
+	constructor: function(name) {
+	
+		/**
+		 * An instance property.
+		 * @property {string} Animal#name
+		 */
+		this.name = name;
+	},
+	
+	/**
+	 * A static property.
+	 * @property {string} Animal.name
+	 */
+	name: "",
+
+	/**
+	 * @method Animal#eat
+	 */
+	eat: function() {
+		this.speak("Yum!");
+	},
+
+	/**
+	 * @method Animal#speak
+	 * @param {string} message
+	 */
+	speak: function(message) {
+		alert(this.name + ": " + message);
+	}
+});
+
+/**
+ * @constructor Snake
+ * @extends Animal
+ */
+var Snake = Animal.extend({
+
+	/**
+	 * The sound a snake makes?
+  	 * @method Snake#hiss
+  	 */
+	hiss: function() {
+		this._super.speak('hissssss');
+	}
+});
+
+/**
+ * @constructor Cat
+ * @extends Animal
+ */
+var Cat = Animal.extend({
+
+	/**
+  	 * @method Cat#meow
+  	 */
+	meow: function() {
+		this._super.speak('meow');
+	},
+	
+	/**
+	 * Mixin a method from another class.
+  	 * @name Cat#hiss => Snake#hiss
+  	 */
+	hiss: Snake.prototype.hiss
+});
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