Re: equals subclass

Quoting Daniel Bonniot <[email protected]>:

> Isaac Gouy wrote:
> 
> >Clarification: Seems that there isn't a way to write those equals
> >methods within a class body, as that would be 
> >   equals(Point p1, #Point p2)
> >rather than
> >   equals(#Point p1, #Point p2)
> >
> >Have I got that right?
> >  
> >
> Yes, if you declare an implementation of a method foo inside a class C, 
> it is equivalent to:
> 
>   foo(C this, ...) { ... }
> 
> Not sure if this is a problem in practice. # implementations should be 
> exceptional, I think.
> 
> Does somebody has an idea what syntax could allow to # dispatch on this?

I don't think it is too important to have special syntax for it. You can always
write the method outside the class body.

- Brian



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