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In most OO languages (from what I have gathered), doing what I want to do should be no problem. I'm running straight into the brick wall of depth-first @ISA searches for methods. I want to change SUPER to be breadth-first. NEXT doesn't do what I want cause it continues the depth-first search, just allowing that the search could backtrack past the re-dispatch. What I really want is use redispatch 'breadth-first'; (as opposed to the default use redispatch 'depth-first';).

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Re: Re: Re: Decorator(?) classes and inheritance
by stvn (Monsignor) on Jan 31, 2004 at 02:54 UTC

    Which other OO languages? The only thing i can think of is the weird C++ thing where the constructors of all the classes you inherited from get called too, but that might actually confuse your problem more than make it simpler. You are looking for your classes to dispatch in a more intelligent way, but I dont think you are giving them enough info to do that with.

    Again, more code (runnable real code not pseudo-code) would really help us in figuring this out.

    -stvn
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