Imagine the following:
I have a class ‘Parent’ which has the following method
Parent>>name: aString
name := aString
I also have a subclass of a Parent called Child.
Now I would like to attach some behavior via MetaLinks for the method ‘name:’
but only for the Child method, is that possible?
Naturally I could just override the method and have
Child>>name: aString
super name: aString
And then attach the metalink to that, but that’s not nice because you have to
create extra methods (which is extra work/code if Parent has more subclasses)
Alternatively I could attach the MetaLink to Parent and do type-checking, but
that would br very complex and error-prone (Parent has a rather wild family).
Ideally I would like for the MetaLink to install to the child even though the
method doesn't exist. Is that somehow possible?
Thanks,
Peter
