Re: Cryptic OOP syntax

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Feb 02, 2005, at 00:08, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> I'm not particularly enamored of super calls but some programming 
> styles
> really expect them to at least some extent.

Yes. I would venture that most mainstream ones do use 'super' in one 
form of another.

I even use it myself :P

http://alt.textdrive.com/lua/19/#c000013
http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/file/lu/MyOtherClass.lua

One er, rather, er, interesting aspect of this specific implementation 
is that you could 'skip' a hierarchy altogether:

    this.dwim = function()
        -- do additional stuff

        return this.super().super().dwim()
    end

Note the 'super().super()' call. The same applies to both class and 
instance methods.

Cheers

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