From: "Jan E." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-05-25T03:50:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Don't override it - Use it

Hi,

Doug Jolley wrote in post #1062010:
> In playing around, I discovered the mechanism illustrated in the code
> below for *re-shaping* the result of the code in a super-class method.
> I'm wondering if this technique is in common usage; and, if so, does it
> have a name?  (I know that it's not, "overriding".  What is it?)

This technique is *very* common. It's one of the basic features of 
object orientation.

And it *is* actually called overriding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_overriding

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