From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-08-08T22:53:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19383] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Parrot, can Ruby play too?)

On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:20 am, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:
>> Calling, say, $self->SUPER::method merely skips the
> > current class (and only works if written in the namespace (package)
> > of the class that's being defined, not dynamically as I've wanted it
> > to).
>
> Don't get me started on this. See the debate on the subject I had with
> perl5porters about a month back. And which, having looked up the
> SmallTalk way of doing it, I may be returning too.
>
> Annoyingly, there seems to be no way of implementing a reliable
> SUPER.pm which will do the right 'dynamic' thing, because perl doesn't
> cache the appropriate information when it makes the function call.

In Class::Prototyped we ended up having to use closures to get "proper" super 
behavior dynamically.

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Ned Konz
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