From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-06-16T16:20:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?


Logan Capaldo wrote:

> I can definitely see __class__ and __object_id__. #dup and #clone
> though it seems to me that there would be plently of situations that
> someone would want to override those, and you would want the
> overridden versions. Failing that maybe add a #copy method that would
> default to an alias of #dup but would be for the express purpose of
> overriding for "deeper" copies. I guess it's a judgement call. (One I
> thankfully don't have to make).

Of course __dup__ and __clone__ can be overridden too. But I imagine
that would create quite a bit of additional work, so maybe these two
are just better left as exceptions ...not sure.

T.