From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-12-14T01:54:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheritance Question

On Saturday, 14 December 2002 at  1:50:22 +0900, ahoward wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "J" == Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:
> >
> [snip]
> > J> Well, the way Matrix is setup, it makes even using DelegateClass
> > J> difficult.
> [snip]
> 
> **
> 
> 'never call Class.method from any instance method lest ye be uninheritable'
> 
> **
> 
> for instance, if all calls to Matrix.method made from inside Matrix instance
> methods are replaced with type.method - Matrix works identically and becomes
> inheritable.  to me this seems abosolutely reasonable, though some would
> claim class designers might want to enforce the return of a specific object
> type from certain methods.  i would say this has NO place in Ruby for the
> following reasons
> 

  I agree.
  I think for 1.7 and forward, it should class.method instead of
  type.method?

  Jim


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Jim Freeze
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