From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T07:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types)

Sean O'Dell wrote:

>On Wednesday 19 November 2003 01:01 pm, Chad Fowler wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Sean O'Dell wrote:
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>>...
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>>As demonstrated previously in this thread, class and/or module inheritance
>>checking *doesn't* give you any info about what a method does or what
>>parameters it takes.
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>
>Actually, it tells you exactly.  If a class inherits from String, you know it 
>has all the methods String does, and you know exactly what parameters they 
>...	Sean O'Dell
>
No, you don't know that at all.  It's a reasonable presumption, but any, 
or all, or the methods that you think are there might have been 
overridden.  And might do something totally different.  And this may be 
for either a good reason or a silly reason.