Author: allison Date: Tue May 8 21:09:56 2007 New Revision: 18476 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd15_objects.pod
Log: [pdd]: Differentiating vtable functions and vtable overrides in Objects PDD. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd15_objects.pod ============================================================================== --- trunk/docs/pdds/pdd15_objects.pod (original) +++ trunk/docs/pdds/pdd15_objects.pod Tue May 8 21:09:56 2007 @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ Note that for languages which support default fallback methods, such as Perl 5's AUTOLOAD, this would be the place to return it if a normal lookup fails. -Since the method list and vtable function list are stored in the class +Since the method list and vtable override list are stored in the class PMC, method finding is a lookup on the class object and not a lookup in the namespace. (This could be handled automatically whenever a class is associated with a namespace.) Just adding a sub to a namespace will not @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ the method with the new method and throw a warning. It also takes named parameters to flag whether the method is a vtable -function, and whether it is anonymous (no named entry as a method, only +override, and whether it is anonymous (no named entry as a method, only as a vtable). =item methods @@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ the method with the new method and throw a warning. It also takes slurpy named parameters to flag whether the method is a -vtable function, and whether its anonymous (no named entry as a method, +vtable override, and whether its anonymous (no named entry as a method, only as a vtable). =item methods
