Re: Re: class interface of roles

2006-10-08 Thread Matt Fowles
Jonathan~ On 10/7/06, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TSa wrote: > Dispatch depends on a partial ordering of roles. Could someone please give me an example to illustrate what is meant by "partial ordering" here? Sets demonstrate partial ordering. Let < denote the subset relation shi

Re: Re: class interface of roles

2006-10-07 Thread Jonathan Lang
TSa wrote: Dispatch depends on a partial ordering of roles. Could someone please give me an example to illustrate what is meant by "partial ordering" here? -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang

Re: Re: class interface of roles

2006-10-07 Thread Stevan Little
On 10/6/06, TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HaloO, Stevan Little wrote: > On 10/2/06, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This notion of exclusionary roles is an interesting one, though. I'd >> like to hear about what kinds of situations would find this notion >> useful; but for the mome

Re: Re: class interface of roles

2006-10-07 Thread Stevan Little
On 10/6/06, TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HaloO, Stevan Little wrote: > As for how the example in the OP might work, I would suspect that > "super" would not be what we are looking for here, but instead a > variant of "next METHOD". I'm not familiar with the next METHOD syntax. How does one ge

Re: Re: Re: class interface of roles

2006-10-02 Thread Stevan Little
On 10/2/06, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This notion of exclusionary roles is an interesting one, though. I'd like to hear about what kinds of situations would find this notion useful; but for the moment, I'll take your word that such situations exist and go from there. Well to be

Re: Re: class interface of roles

2006-10-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Stevan Little wrote: Brad Bowman wrote: > How does a Role require that the target class implement a method (or > do another Role)? IIRC, it simply needs to provide a method stub, like so: method bar { ... } This will tell the class composer that this method must be created before everything is

Re: Re: class interface of roles

2006-10-02 Thread Stevan Little
On 10/2/06, Brad Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sam Vilain wrote: > TSa wrote: >> is this subject not of interest? I just wanted to start a >> discussion about the class composition process and how a >> role designer can require the class to provide an equal >> method and then augment it to ac