super() doesn't get superclass
Hrvoje Niksic
hniksic at xemacs.org
Wed Sep 19 08:02:55 EDT 2007
Michele Simionato <michele.simionato at gmail.com> writes:
> On Sep 19, 1:16 pm, Hrvoje Niksic <hnik... at xemacs.org> wrote:
>> Your arguments against the superclass term seem to assume that there
>> is only a single superclass to a particular class.
>
> If you say "the" superclass, then you also assume it is unique.
FWIW, Bruno said "a", at least in the section you quoted.
> But the big issue is that the order of the methods depends on the
> second argument to super, the instance, so there is no useful
> concept of the superclass of the first argument of super.
No argument here.
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