[Bug 12845] Disallow shadowing attributes

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12845

--- Comment #17 from Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com> 2011-06-07 23:57:24 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> Are there good situations where you'd really want to override with incompatible
> behavior?

It's a pretty common situation to start with a class that defines mutable
instances and then discover that you need to make a variation with immutable
instances.  In a perfect would you would refactor and make the mutable class
inherit from the immutable class.  But if you aren't allowed to do that
refactoring (eg, you don't control the framework) you may expediently make the
immutable version a sublass of the mutable version and over-ride all the
mutation method to throw an error or perhaps silently do nothing.  Either of
these is probably an incompatible behavior from the perspective of the original
class specification.

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Received on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 23:57:30 UTC