Dear list,
is it possible that method dispatch checks for superclasses/virtual
classes before checking "ANY"?
I'd like to build a generic initialization method for all my Reference
Class (say "MyDataFrame") objects by having them inherit from class, say
"MyRefClassVirtual" (which would have to be a virtual S4 class; there
are no virtual Reference Classes, are there?)
The problem is that 'getRefClass("MyDataFrame")$new' calls (I think) the
method that was written for "ANY". Thus even though I write a explicit
initialize method for class "MyRefClassVirtual" which I should be called
for "MyDataFrame" as it inherits from this class, this method will never
be called because "ANY beats anything else".
So, I think I'd like to tell the method somehow to check for
superclass/virtual classes *before* resorting to "ANY".
Is that possible?
Regards,
Janko
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