From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-06-08T11:07:33+09:00
Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash?

Hi --

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Richard Kilmer wrote:

> On 6/7/04 7:37 PM, "Jim Weirich" <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> 
> >>>> Maybe:
> >>>> 
> >>>>  f<Array>['rich']
> >>>>  f.<Person>[firstname]
> >>>> 
> >>>> It's ugly enough to discourage its use, but it also calls
> >>> to mind the
> > 
> > I missed what this syntax (and the other proposals) is supposed to
> > accomplish and the threading in this topic thread is wonky enough so
> > that I can't find the parent messages.  Could someone fill me in.
> 
> The key is expressing that a method you are defining is semantically
> equivalent to a method in another class/module.

What happens if the method in the other class or module gets
redefined, with new semantics?  


David

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David A. Black
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