TclOO Package

2013-09-19  Donal Fellows  <[email protected]>

	* doc/next.n (METHOD SEARCH ORDER): Bug [3606943]: Corrected
	description of method search order.

2013-09-18  Donal Fellows  <[email protected]>

	=== RELEASE OF TCLOO VERSION 1.0.1 ===

	Patch release to correspond with Tcl 8.6.1.

2013-08-02  Donal Fellows  <[email protected]>

.IP [5]
The method chain is cached for future use.
.SS "METHOD SEARCH ORDER"
.PP
When constructing the method chain, method implementations are searched for in
the following order:
.IP [1]


In the classes mixed into the object, in class traversal order. The list of
mixins is checked in natural order.
.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]
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; 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
class (or has mixed in a class) that has a list of filter names set upon it,
before every invokation of any method the filters are processed. Filter
implementations are found in class traversal order, as are the lists of filter
names (each of which is traversed in natural list order). Explicitly invoking