Hi all On the subject of overriding methods, this is something I can't decide about.
I'm implementing a simple message bus. You can tell it to publish, eg `bus.publish(message)` and this will be received by all wired handlers. It returns no meaningful result. But I also want another method with slightly different behaviour (it will probably accept a listener for the response and only deliver to one handler). Currently the best name for this I can find is "send", eg: `bus.send(message, …)`. Now the only problem with this is that as Object defines #send, so if you tell the wrong thing to "send", you get the unhelpful error "<some message description> is not a symbol". You can still send arbitrary messages to a message bus with #__send__. Arguably if it was passed into something that uses #send (although I can't think how or why), that would break in a bizarre way. I'm tempted to use "deliver" instead of "send", although I don't think I like the word as much for this use. It's a bit optimistic, for a start. I just wondered if anyone had an opinion either way on overriding methods like this. Thanks Ash -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashmoran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
