On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 22:42:54 +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: > I explicitly don't want $wider and $mono to be /clones/ of $base - I want > them to /be/ $base but with modified parameters. Semantically it behaves as > if an instance handle ($base, $wider, $mono) binds > parameters to an object so instead of
Proto based OO usually does not imply cloning, but a linked list lookup chain thingy, where props in the derived object shadow ones in the ancestor, but modification to the ancestor will reflect in all the children. If you want this for testing Test::MockObject::Extends works well, if you want it for real code I guess you could cannibalize that, but I doubt you'll find this as a pattern anywhere else because most languages that have a pattern naming culture lack the flexbility to do these tricks -- Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://nothingmuch.woobling.org 0xEBD27418
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