hmm.. maybe 'foreign overrides' or 'external overrides' will be more precise?
or 'cross-package overrides' :)

On 29/04/07, Jerome Peace <peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [Help] What do people mean when they talk of
> "overrides"
>
> I know this sounds almost like a newbie question. But
> I have an important reason for asking.
>
> When I first came on board "overide" was used in the
> context of inheritence when a subclass reimplementied
> a method it would otherwise have inherited.
>
> Now in the context of packages and Monticello it seems
> to mean something quite different. And has come in the
> context of its new meaning to have become "evil" or at
> least undesirable.
>
> As far as I can make out in the latter context it
> means one package overiding a Class>>method of another
> package. In otherwords breaking the critical
> assumption of packages that each Class>>method appear
> in one and only one package.
>
> I don't have great confidence that I have this
> completely correct.
>
> So can someone clarify the distinction between the two
> meanings? And maybe suggest a different way of
> expressing one of them to reduce confusion?
>
>
> Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace
>
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