[ANSI-Smalltalk] Re: #performOverride:withArgs:

[Matthew Fulmer]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 03:13:44PM -0400, Panu Logic wrote:
>    Let me transfer to a totally different, but also a
>    "reflection" -issue, which I've long considered  the only
>    thing lacking from Smalltalk: 
> 
>    #performOverride:withArgs:
> 
>    This should in my view be defined as overriding the
>    message-handling behavior of any method sent to an object
>    which provides an implementation of this method.
>    #perform::withArgs: is already defined for Object, so
>    naturally we don't want to impose this behavior on
>    everything. Yet we would like the effect of defining this
>    method to be inheritable.

I don't understand at all what this would do. Change the method
lookup, perhaps to implement delegatiin? Provide some kind of
undefined message handling in addition to #doesNotUnderstand?
Allow per-object methods? Make coffee?

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