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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
March 17, 2007 08:09
Subject:
Re: AutoLoader inheritance patch
Message ID:
b77c1dce0703170809l77d0fcbfoc8483694176cff63@mail.gmail.com
On 17/03/07, Steffen Mueller <o6hhmk002@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> I created a patch (including tests!) to make AutoLoader work with
> class inheritance: so now you can have a base class and a derived
> class that both use AutoLoader for some of their methods, and calling
> an auto-loadable method in the base class on an object which isa
> derived class will no longer result in an error, but the base class'es
> method will be loaded and executed. The can() should now work as well
> correctly.

I haven't really the energy to re-read the patch right now, but the
question that pops up into my mind is -- does this goes against
documented behaviour and/or a core regression test ?

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