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.