Re: how to stop the subclass from overriding a method.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Venkat
Akkineni<venkatram.akkineni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> It will certainly work but you'll end up with Java written
>> with Ruby syntax.
>
> This was playing in the back of my head. But makes more sense when
> detailed from another person's perspective.  A sensible argument one
> would expect from purists.
>
>          Hence I have given up trying perfect my java -> ruby
> translation skills. The focus now is on how to implement the classes
> better in ruby using the language features.

This is a good move, and the right thing to do.  Some things just
don't transfer between languages.

An analogy might be a native French speaker learning English trying to
hang on to the idea that adjectives need to agree in gender with the
nouns they modify, or an English speaker learning French insisting
that the adjectives almost always go before the noun, rather than the
other way around.


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