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From: uucibg@swbatl.UUCP (3929)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: OOP in C
Message-ID: <1038@swbatl.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 18:28:39 GMT
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Reply-To: uucibg@swbatl.UUCP (Brian Gilstrap - UCI - 5-3929)
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In article <G'~M&|@rpi.edu> wiseb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (G. Bowden Wise) writes:
>Have you implemented a 'super' construct so that you can override inherited
>methods in the derived class and use the super method instead?
>************************************************************
>* Bowden Wise (wiseb@turing.cs.rpi.edu)                    *
>*       RPI Computer Science Department, Troy, NY  12180   *
>************************************************************

Yes.  IMHO, It would be a pretty brain-dead OOP system if it didn't have
this.  In Coo (the origins of the name I'm trying to lose into the mists
of time :-), you would invoke use the 'super' construct inside a method via:

    ...
    something = ask( int, super, doSomethingWhichReturnsIntVal, ( myArg ) );
    ...

This does what you expect (if you are familiar with Objective-C, Complete C,
etc).  Basically, it starts the search for the method with the super-class 
methods of the current object.  Er, let's try that again.  If I use super in
a method of class Foo and Foo's super-class is Bar, then the search for
method "doSomethingWhichReturnsIntVal" will start with the methods of class
Bar.


Thanks,
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