On Aug 23, 2013, at 3:48 AM, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote:
>> would strategy not solve your problem? >> > Sure if I would have an actual problem I would use strategy to mitigate the > problem. With strategy you can extend the single dimensionality of single > inheritance but you cannot acquire new behavior. Or better it is even more > cumbersome if you use it to make it acquire new things. > Or different said: If there is something like a design pattern that is used > really often it could be a good idea if the language would support this out > of the box, right? Somewhere in between is the reason why I was asking :) Metaprogramming is your friend :-P Actually this is only half jokingly … one of the ideas of metaprogramming is that the programmer can mold the semantics of the language to his/her liking depending on the task at hand. This (amongst others) is why we can do so many cool things in Smalltalk. For example, when you have a more concrete case of what you are looking for you can build something with method wrappers, or override DNU :-) to do your thing ... ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile
