From: Geoff Stanley <geoffstanley@...>
Date: 2006-04-27T10:26:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Extending Methods

James Gray wrote:
> Can you please explain why inheritance and super are bad here?  They
> seem like the perfect solution to me.

I don't want to use inheritence and super because that would mean each 
plugin would create its own child class of the base class it wants to 
modify. This causes two problems: 1) The child classes wouldn't do 
anything; They'd have to be hooked into the main program somehow... 
troublesome and 2) The child classes wouldn't work together. If I have 
two plugins modifying the same method in the same base class, they both 
need to be able to modify it, not one overruling the other.

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