At 8:48 PM +0100 2/3/03, Jerome Quelin wrote:
Attributes do get inherited, but they're mostly invisible to any methods but the methods of the class that defines the attributes. (Of course, it's a SMOP to get them out, and they won't be that hidden, but...)Dan Sugalski wrote:At 8:39 PM +0100 2/3/03, Jerome Quelin wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: >> *) Property: A named thing attached to an object. Properties are >> global to the object and public--i.e. there's no implicit hiding, >> namespaces, or whatnot. There can be only one foo property on an >> object, for example >> The interpreter must handle class hierarchy stuff (parent class, >> interfaces inherited) so method caches can be invalidated as need >> be for class structure changes >What about property inheritance? Properties can't get inherited. Properties are runtime additions tacked on individual objects, and since we're not doing a template inheritance system there's no way to inherit the things.Oops, silly me. I was talking about attribute inheritance...
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