[squeak-dev] Overrides in newest Monticellos?

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Sun Jul 13 20:01:50 UTC 2008


Hi Colin,

Colin Putney wrote:

>> I'm willing to migrate to such MC immediately if available. I think
>> working with overrides is such a powerful feature (not to mention that
>> VisualWorks have that) that Squeak needs the proper support as soon as
>> possible.
> 
> MC2 doesn't have a concept of overrides as such, but it does allow 
> packages to overlap, and uses versioning history to determine which of 
> the two versions of a method should be used.
> 
> I'm doing the final clean up for the first release, which will be Real 
> Soon Now™.

That means if I extend some method in another package and it happens 
that the method has the same name (this is regarded as override in VW 
for nistance), MC2 will deal with that situation right and won't change 
an original package as that this method is removed there?

Janko


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