On Dec 15, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
> um, merge = something happened. I am not sure this is good.
Hmmm... guess you haven't used Subversion much.
>> Huh? How would the i-layer approach help here? You would have had to
>> override a complete method, which would have been a lot hairier to
>> maintain.
>
> I would have done exactly that: cut/paste/edit.
>
> I totally disagree on the hairier - If I had had my hacked code in
> the i-layer,
> I would have had to do nothing when your change came in. my code
> would continue
> to be used, 'nothing' would change regardless of what your code did.
>
> do nothing <> hairy
Uh-huh. And if I had also added something that you *didn't* already
do in your copy, you would have lost that change.
> And none of this address the multiple inheritance suggestion.
I wasn't trying to do that. You really seem to be obsessed with
making all your mods locally. Here is something that isn't a Carl
preference; it is something that affects anyone who uses the bit type
in MySQL. Yet you want to keep that change local?
The whole i-layer/MI approach is for local customization, not
fundamental processes.
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