From: Dossy Date: 2002-07-06T12:09:14+09:00 Subject: Re: self_parent On 2002.07.06, Michael Campbell wrote: > > In ten years of professional software development, a good chunk of > > it doing OO, I have never had a contained class (the child) call a > > method in the containing class (the parent). > > I can't think of an instance where I have either. I've passed self > before, but I can't ever remember thinking it was a good idea. Has no one around here ever implemented the Visitor pattern!? -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)