is Missing multiple inheritance in sqeak a drawback ?
Cees de Groot
cg at cdegroot.com
Sun Oct 13 10:51:59 UTC 2002
Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> said:
>What this won't do, unfortunately, is track Collection and regenerate the
>wrappers if Collection gains or loses some methods.
>
These are the Perils Of Code Generation, and that's why I consider it a Tool
of the Dark Side (the fact that you cannot write any decent system in Java
without resorting to it says enough ;-)).
Why are you generating code and not doing something more dynamic? It'd be easy
to have the same effect in a DNU handler.
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