From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-08-28T00:07:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Bind to an "as if" superclass context


On Aug 26, 6:00 pm, "Logan Capaldo" <logancapa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Had a thought, what if you do "reverse" delegation?
> Instead of having a subclass instance delegate to an instance of super
> class, have a super class delegate to an instance of a subclass
>
> I don't know how feasible this idea is, as I don't know your class
> hierarchy, but it's an idea.

Thanks. A fair suggestion, that under other circumstances might do the
trick. Unfortunately, my purposes are quite a bit more difficult. I'm
attempting to implement Cuts (transparent subclasses) in pure Ruby.
The essential operation of this is to subclass the original class, but
have the subclass behave for all "meta-purposes" as if it were the
original class.

T.