[Xotcl] info method behaviour

[Zoran Vasiljevic]

On Saturday 11 August 2001 23:07, Kristoffer Lawson wrote:

> > AFAIK, the "ob info procs|args|body" is ment to be used
> > with per-object resources (procs), like for example:
>
> Yes, that what it appears to do, but as such it's limited. I would like
> a uniform way of asking information about inherited procs and per-instance
> procs. In fact I might even say that to separate those on this level is
> confusing the object model.
>

I do understand now what you mean. 
You'd like a general introspection
interface, w/o needing to know wether
you're dealing with a per-instance
proc or an instproc. Seems logical. 

So you'd say:

ob info body foo
ob info body bar

or 

ob info args foo
ob info args bar

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?

I think such behaviour can be implemented
with some XOTcl wrappers using existing 
introspection capabilities of the system. 
I might be wrong of course. Maybe Uwe and/or 
Gustaf can say something about it?

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.

Cheers
Zoran