From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-05T10:57:55+09:00
Subject: Re: self_parent

Hi --

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> what if it had a method argument to identify the class name:
>
> 	self_ancestor(Class)
>
> or the like? in this way you could move as far up as you needed without
> breaking code under refactorization. of course, precedence would have to
> be given to the first match in the case of a parent creating an instance
> of itself.

If you keep at it, you might come full circle to the idea of passing
self as an argument :-)  That's the thing -- I think as you examine the
problem with this idiom, you'll end up finding other, more economical
ways to do the same kinds of things.


David

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