From 5aee161167696db6b88db2b42a0d8963bb1cda6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dkf Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:21:21 +0000 Subject: [3606943]: Corrected description of method search order. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/next.n | 11 +++++++---- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 3dc8c5e..b144110 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2013-09-19 Donal Fellows + + * doc/next.n (METHOD SEARCH ORDER): Bug [3606943]: Corrected + description of method search order. + 2013-09-18 Donal Fellows Bump TclOO version to 1.0.1 for release. diff --git a/doc/next.n b/doc/next.n index 0ad752a..fe7bddf 100644 --- a/doc/next.n +++ b/doc/next.n @@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ The method chain is cached for future use. When constructing the method chain, method implementations are searched for in the following order: .IP [1] -In the object. -.IP [2] In the classes mixed into the object, in class traversal order. The list of mixins is checked in natural order. -.IP [3] +.IP [2] In the classes mixed into the classes of the object, with sources of mixing in being searched in class traversal order. Within each class, the list of mixins is processed in natural order. +.IP [3] +In the object itself. .IP [4] In the object's class. .IP [5] @@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ In the superclasses of the class, following each superclass in a depth-first fashion in the natural order of the superclass list. .PP Any particular method implementation always comes as \fIlate\fR in the -resulting list of implementations as possible. +resulting list of implementations as possible; this means that if some class, +A, is both mixed into a class, B, and is also a superclass of B, the instances +of B will always treat A as a superclass from the perspective of inheritance. +This is true even when the multiple inheritance is processed indirectly. .SS FILTERS .PP When an object has a list of filter names set upon it, or is an instance of a -- cgit v0.12