At 7:19 PM +0000 2/19/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:12:24PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Non-aggregates can (and must) implement the _keyed vtable method, > > though it may well do nothing but throw an exception. > > > > References, for example, will implement them, just passing the access > > down to the referent. > >So does this mean that (it is likely?) that the default _keyed vtable methods >on a non-aggregate will return self if KEY* is NULL, otherwise throw an >exception?
Hrm, good question. I think yes, otherwise the NULL check gets pushed out into a zillion different places. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk