On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:25:35PM -0800, Glenn Linderman wrote: > I think you just said the same thing I did. To be more explicit, using > the terminology you seem to want to use, I'll point out that I was only > talking about the case of an inherited method, not a _replacement_ > method. In other words, when you inherit a method, you are taking the > base implementation for that method. But if you replace a method, you > are not inheriting that method, but rather replacing it; yes, the > replacement method may choose to call the base implementation's method > as part of the replacement implementation. When you replace a method, > you have 2 subroutines, the base implementation, and the replacement > implementation, but when you inherit a method, you have only 1 > subroutine, which may be called 2 different ways.
But the base class may be just an interface class. And thus by inheriting the pre conditions you are enforcing the API. So I can see a use for it, but I can also see where you don't want it too. Graham.
