For the record: I do think Allen’s design is superior to what I’ve seen so far and it also most clearly reflects the semantics of |super| (apart from a non-starter dynamic solution). Sorry for the off-topic contributions, I liked the puzzle of finding an alternative.
> Nope -- I think that design isn't the correct semantics. super() exists to > delegate back to parent implementations of *the current method*. When calling > a different instance method the calls should always start back out at the > bottom of the inheritance hierarchy -- not at whatever level you happened to > be on at the time. > > If you haven't overridden the other instance method, then everything will > work as expected ... and if you *have* overridden it, you need that > overridden implementation to be called, otherwise you're breaking all kinds > of expectations about the behavior of your code. FWIW: here is the code. https://gist.github.com/1331748 -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com
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