On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 13:27, Austin Hastings wrote: > I think we had this discussion a year or two ago, and Damian was opposed to > the notion that providing the correct methods was equivalent to providing > the interface or belonging to the class. > > His reasoning involved Dog and Tree both sharing grow, bark, etc. > > Perhaps he could re-explain his reasoning?
I agree with his reasoning. You need some sort of context to determine whether bark() is a noun or a verb -- that'd be the name of the class (or the role, in my scheme). Trying to infer which role might apply may be nice in some cases, but as a general matter of policy it seems pretty vague and corner-casey. I'm comfortable saying "if you don't mark 'does' and you don't inherit, the compiler won't guess that you do." -- c
