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On 10/13/05, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Okay, I seriously have to see an example of a submethod in use.
>
> Likewise. As far as I've seen, submethods are a kludge wedged in for
> cases where you're actually calling all the way up the inheritence
> tree. Personally, I've always thought a "cascade method" syntax would
> be better for that:
>
> post method BUILD($foo, $bar) { ... }
> pre method DESTROY() { ... }
>
> Cascade methods would be called (before|after) the indicated method in
> a superclass was called. Their return values would probably be thrown
> away. I think they might actually be a sort of syntactic sugar for
> inserting `call` in the method body, but that's an implementation
> detail, really...
I have always wondered about the absence of these. CLOS has them and
they look quite useful. Was it an intentionaly decision to omit this
type of multi method?
Matt
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