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Re: [Xotcl] info method behaviour

From: Kristoffer Lawson <setok_at_fishpool.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:10:40 +0300 (EEST)

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.

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