> why not use prototype?
Your example assumes updateDisplayList to be a static method. The
method I'd like to call belong to the instance's grandpa not all
grandparents in general.
tonio
> class Base {
> updateDisplayList:Void() { /* some good code */}
> }
> class Child {
> updateDisplayList:Void() {
> // hundreds of lines of useless code
> }
> }
> class Grandchild {
> Grandchild() {
> Grandchild.prototype.updateDisplayList =
> Base.prototype.updateDisplayList;
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> }
> }
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> Anthony Lee wrote:
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> maybe I want to override (and by that I mean NOT run the code in)
> parent.updateDisplayList. But if I override updateDisplayList,
> then at some point in my method I've got to call super.updateDisplayList
> to get anything to work. But that means I'm going to run all the code in
> super.updateDisplayList, when in reality I just want to run the code in
> grandParent.updateDisplayList.
>
> EXACTLY!
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> Forgive my nativity but is there no way to hack the required
> functionality into the super class or something higher that it
> inherits from? This kind of thing went on all the time with AS1.
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