The original plan was to use the super keyword to signal that invokespecial should be used. Now that you mention the lack of type relationship, that problem is obvious. I suppose adding a :supers is what I'll do.
-Matt On Dec 8, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Rich Hickey wrote: > > > > On Dec 8, 9:30 am, Matt Revelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm working on a patch to add support for calling the superclass' >> implementation of a method when overriding a method in Clojure with >> ns/:genclass. This looks like it requires a modification of the >> InstanceMethodExpr class in clojure.lang.Compiler. The proposed >> syntax would be: (. super/MethodFoo this args). One issue is that >> using super/MethodFoo to refer to the superclass' method means that >> (.super/MethodFoo this args) wouldn't work without more Parser >> changes. >> >> I'm close to finishing this, but would like to get feedback before >> spending more time. Thoughts? >> > > I would set aside the syntax and first describe the mechanism. Are you > going to generate a super-calling version of every method? Are you > going to try to emit code to generate invokespecial in the > implementing fn? The latter won't work as there is no type > relationship. > > It might be easier to just enhance the :exposes to handle methods as > well, or add a :supers section. > > Rich > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
