Re: RFC 254 (v1) Class Collections: Provide the ability to overload classes

[email protected] (Greg Williams) Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:45:17 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.objects
Message-ID <p05001901b5eea4bfd4b4@[10.1.100.11]>
>I wonder if this problem couldn't be solved with a proper combination of
>@ISA, SUPER::, NEXT::, and use delegation? (calling Damian... :-)

The problem I see is a bit of trickery would be necessary to get 
static calls to the class to resolve to the appropriate method. 
Using Schwern's DBI example, calls to DBI::st from within DBI would 
need to map correctly to subcollection code (a different 
implementation of DBI::st).

.greg
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