Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary

[Peter Horan <peter@deakin.edu.au>]

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:08:14 -0500, Wes Groleau
> <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> wrote:
> >
> >Since I didn't learn much, anyone game for an alternate question?
> >Let X your favorite and Y the other (of Ada or Eiffel).  What is
> >the one feature (if any) of Y that you wish was in X ?
> 
> X := Eiffel
> Y := Common Lisp
> 
> If wish that the :before :after method to patch a method would
> be in Eiffel.

What about

class A
feature
    f is
        do
            -- body
        end
end

class B
inherit A
    redefine f
feature
    f is
        do
            -- stuff done before
            Precursor  -- execute the original body
            -- stuff done after
        end
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