From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-02T23:21:29+09:00
Subject: Re: canonical Array#append to hang hook

2007/10/2, Lars Ticot <nicolas.rassat@free.fr>:
> To Robert Klemme:
>
> Sure I can do this but this way I lose every benefit of inheritance! And
> I'll have to rewrite "accesor" function to access function to the
> instance variable array. That is not very DRY.

Actually the only real difference is object identity IMHO. As has been
demonstrated there are easy to use tools that make delegation of
method invocations to the real Array really simple.

If you provide more insight into your use case then maybe even more /
better / easier solutions will come up.  I am convinced that it is a
bad idea to inherit Array most of the time similarly to it being a bad
idea to inherit java.util.HashMap.

Kind regards

robert