On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:28:41PM -0800, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >Class inheritance from PMCs is very static still (like PMC-only cases). I > >hope that the :vtable patches will provide the base for a better solution. > >For now, you can only implement the mssing _integer_keyed cases in Match > >so that default isn't triggered. We could of course remove the defaults > >too, but that would need a very complete set of these keyed vtables on all > >PMCs. > > > Or how about removing them from default.pmc and having an extra > attribute specifiable on PMCs like "auto_keyed" (uh, somebody please > think of a less naff name) that generates missing keyed methods for > those PMCs that want them.
To me that feels like a hack. The current rather-too-static dispatch (to me) seems to be the bug, and the thing that needs fixing. Nicholas Clark
