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From: pett@socrates.ucsf.edu (Eric Pettersen%CGL)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: invisible class variables
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Date: 18 Oct 88 02:01:39 GMT
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Reply-To: pett@socrates.ucsf.edu (Eric Pettersen%CGL)
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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        I've come across an annoying shortcoming in the NeWS class mechanism
implementation.  There is no clean way to access the class variables of a
superclass while a subclass is being defined.  They are not available at class
definition time, not even via "super send".  It would seem logical to me that
one should be able to define the class variables of a subclass in terms of the
class variables of the superclass.  Is there a good reason a subclass
definition should not be able to get the superclass class variables?

                                Eric Pettersen
                                pett@cgl.ucsf.edu
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