[Xotcl] info method behaviour

Mon Aug 13 20:10:40 CEST 2001

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Gustaf Neumann wrote:

>  
>  hmm. you mentioned here twice "args" and "body"; you should not use
>  these for inherited methods, use instead "instargs" and "instbody".

That's the point, the method-generator should know be concerned with
whether the template methods are inherited or not!
> 
>  i am still confused. Are you trying to use the instprocs as templates
>  for procs? if i paraphrase the example from the wiki, this would be
> 
>    Class C
>    C instproc fooTemplate <argument> <body>
> 
>    C c1
>    useTemplate c1 fooTemplate foo -msg1 Hi -msg2 bye
> 
>  where the object c1 has afterwards a proc foo, and fooTemplate could
>  be a proc or an instproc.
> 
>  i do not think, that this is a good solution, but this is an example
>  where i would like to ignore the differences between procs and instprocs.
>  is this similar to what you are working on?

This is pretty much exactly what I am doing, albeit with metaclasses
and classes.

         -     ---------- = = ---------//--+
         |    /     Kristoffer Lawson      |  www.fishpool.fi|.com
         +-> |    setok at fishpool.com       |  - - --+------
             |-- Fishpool Creations Ltd - /         |
             +-------- = - - - = ---------      /~setok/