Re: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-02-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:30:44AM -0500, Joseph Ryan wrote: > >Whether it should actually be in the language is up for debate. I'd say > >that if you need to do this with any frequency whatsoever, you're not > >thinking about roles right. A good example might be in order... :-) > > Well, what i

Re: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-02-04 Thread Luke Palmer
Joseph Ryan writes: > >It's surely possible by modifying that class's DISPATCH. > > > >Whether it should actually be in the language is up for debate. I'd say > >that if you need to do this with any frequency whatsoever, you're not > >thinking about roles right. A good example might be in order

Re: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-02-03 Thread Joseph Ryan
Luke Palmer wrote: Austin Hastings writes: Hmm. The text and examples so far have been about methods and this seems to be about multi-methods. Correct me if I'm wrong ... You're wrong. Consider my example, where via single inheritance we reach a "layered" list of methods, each of which