[pro] AMOP question: When and where is slot-value-using-class called?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Jean-Claude Beaudoin <jean.claude.beaudoin at gmail.com> writes:

> So my question is: Which one is right?

I'd note that this is a major problem of how OO libraries or
frameworks are defined.  They very rarely specify or give any guarantee
of when or whom will send a given message to a given object.

This makes indeed difficult to subclass and override methods in a sturdy
way.

This is probably a reason why OO programmers nowadays tend to distance
themselves from inheritance (using so called "flat" hierarchies), and
like "final" methods a lot, which basically denies OO itself.


Otherwise, for your question, you didn't mention any metaclass.  I'm not
sure about it, but I would expect such methods from AMOP to be used
consistently only when you define your own metaclasses.


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