On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:43:22PM -0400, Trey Harris wrote: > You want something like > > class Car is Vehicle renames(drive => accel) > is MP3_Player renames(drive => mp3_drive); > > Either of those renamings is, of course, optional, in which case drive() > refers to the non-renamed one when referring to a Car object. > > But later on, if some code does > > Vehicle $mover = getNext(); # returns a Car > $mover.drive(5); > > It should call C<Vehicle::drive()> on C<$mover>, that is, > C<$mover.accel()>. > > See why aliasing doesn't solve this?
Ahh, because Perl has to know that when $mover is used as a Vehicle it uses Car.accel but when used as an MP3_Player it calls Car.mp3_drive. Clever! -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One If I got something to say, I'll say it with lead. -- Jon Wayne
