[Xotcl] info method behaviour

[Kristoffer Lawson]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Zoran Vasiljevic wrote:

> 
> without extra knowledge about what are
> "foo" and "bar" actually.
> The "foo" may be an instproc whereas 
> the "bar" may be a per-instance proc 
> or vice versa. Correct?

Yes, exactly. I also believe that kind of introspection is quite
natural for an object syste. While inheritance is naturally useful,
I still like to think of objects as independent entities. Thus to do
the above feels useful.

> I would, for example, override the "info" 
> method with some custom code which tries 
> the per-instance proc first and if it does
> not find any, goes to the instproc. 
> This should't be difficult to implement.

It is possible to do (I think), but I'm wondering if this is an oversight
in the info functionality provided by XOTcl? It is a bit messy to first
test for if a procedure exists in the object, and then search the class,
and then any possible mixin class. The same must be done again for getting
a list of available methods. And then up to the superclasses.

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