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From:
Jonathan Lang
Date:
January 6, 2004 19:30
Subject:
Re: Roles and Mix-ins?
Message ID:
20040107032955.90957.qmail@web40805.mail.yahoo.com
Luke Palmer wrote:
> Renaming methods defeats the purpose of roles. Roles are like
> interfaces inside-out. They guarantee a set of methods -- an interface
> -- except they provide the implementation to (in terms of other,
> required methods). Renaming the method destroys the interface
> compatibility.
Not so. A role is more than an inside-out interface; it guarantees a set
of methods either by calling it an error to not define a given method in a
class that C<does> the role or by defining the method itself. In the
latter case, renaming the method can be quite useful; even in the former
case, renaming or excluding methods from a role is useful if you want an
interface which is almost, but not quite, like the one that the role
provides.
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Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
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