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Paul King updated GROOVY-2768:
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Fix Version/s: (was: 3.x)
4.x
> Add sender of method calls as a parameter to the methods of MetaClass
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> Key: GROOVY-2768
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-2768
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: groovy-runtime
> Reporter: Arvid Heise
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.x
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> MetaClass extends the MOP interface with methods which have a senderClass as
> their first parameter. Unfortunately, the param does not refer to the sender
> of the original method call but is in most cases identical to the receiver's
> class.
> Knowing the sender of a method call would allow interesting reflective
> program structures like subjective programming with a three-dimensional
> message dispatch. A method can not only be overwritten by the receiver with
> polymorphism but also by the sender. Refer to
> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/smith96simple.html for more details.
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