Re: [sc-dev] environments as prototypes

[Julian Rohrhuber <rohrhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 9:06 Uhr -0400 02.08.2006, James Harkins wrote:

> Would this be for all pseudo-method calls or just those that 
> override true methods defined in the class tree?

only the latter.

> My solution in AdhocClass is to define certain methods in AdhocClass 
> to pass the message on to the environment.
<..>
yes, EnvironmentRedirect does not yet do all the forwards, but 
already most of them. It would be good to check and add the required 
ones.

> The drawbacks are clutter in the class def, and it does not 
> dynamically adapt to new methods that might be defined in 
> Environment or superclasses (admitting that it may not be 
> technically possible to do that kind of dynamic adaptation).

yes, this is the problem - but on the other hand it does not break in 
intransparent ways when an old definition is used with a changed 
class tree.

> Or, maybe a better question is -- do we know what the requirements 
> are? That is, desired behavior for a given input? The requirements 
> are clear for a method selector not defined in the class tree. What 
> do we want it to do otherwise?

when you try to add such a method, it should throw an error.

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