The FunctorM library

Yitzchak Gale gale at sefer.org
Sat Mar 26 21:30:30 EST 2005


Thomas Hallgren wrote:
>  > If classes were allowed to declare default
>  > methods for superclasses...

Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> Robert Will has written a fully specified proposal for this. He calls it 
> "delayed method definition", see 
> http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~robertw/dessy/fun/, sections 4.3.1 and 4.3.2.
> 
> Looks like a really good idea to me.

Me too. I find the need to define superclass default methods
all the time. That is an upward-compatible change that is
very intuitive.

-Yitz


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