Marcel Weiher <marcel at metaobject.com> wrote:
> for example, it would be really cool if I could just use the pattern  
> to match as the name of the method in a normal method browser, and  
> have the class's dispatcher then do the string matching when it tries  
> to look up the method.
Can you give a usage case? just to make it more concrete.
I'm wondering maybe alot of what you want can be done by creating a
matchOf: that's similar to caseOf:. Rough implementation attached.

BTW
> The part I am currently not so sure about is getting the development  
> tools to accept a method that doesn't have a 'proper' method header,  
> but rather some strange goobledygook of a pattern.  My first thought  
> was hacking the compiler, but that's probably not a good idea.  Hmm,  
> maybe making sense of the message header (and body) should be  
> delegated to the class being edited. 
The class edited specifies it's compiler, so this should not be a
problem, though it might require you to hack *a* compiler, for whatever
language you want to use.

> Marcel
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