From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@...>
Date: 2003-06-19T08:20:20+09:00
Subject: Re: re-open a class --> re-open a method?

Dnia �ro 18. czerwca 2003 11:32, you CAN teach an old dog ... napisa�:

> In exactly the same spirit, wouldn't it make sense to allow some kind
> of re-open of a method, rather than only the current :alias mechanism
> (which is itself wonderful after some other languages)? The accessible
> 'internal' points could include method-entry, method return, method
> exception exit. Through these accessible points we could incrementally
> and modularly define a method

Then changing a method to make the same thing in a different way would no 
longer produce an equivalent method - if other code can peek into method and 
mess with its internals. I can't say I like it. It breaks modularity - now 
the interface of a method includes details of how it is written.

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