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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Method identification.
Message-ID: <11@garth.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 90 18:47:15 GMT
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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In Smalltalk, if you define, say, methods `a' and `b' such that method `b' uses
method `a' as in `self a', the search for the method begins at the original
object. In this way, if a subclass redefines `a' and not `b', then in
`subobject b', the original `b' uses the subclass's `a' rather than the `a'
at the same level.

Smalltalk uses `super' to begin the search partway up the search chain
rather starting at the bottom.

Do Eiffel and C++ provide a similar capabilities?
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