Hy,
In 1 I report an introspection bug, in 2 an ahestetic bug and in 3 a personal consideration about a possible XOTcl improvement.
1. Introspection: "info methods" duplicated entry
In the following I report e test case that shows the problem:
Class MetaClass1 -superclass Class -parameter {{a "v1"} {b ""}} Class MetaClass2 -superclass MetaClass1 -parameter {{a "v2"} {c ""}}
MetaClass1 Class1 MetaClass2 Class2
lsort [Class2 info methods] result: __next a a abstract .... expected: __next a abstract ....
Class2 info methods a result:a a expected: a
2. Usage string
Object n n info children -class Interface wrong # args: should be {::n info children ?pat?}
I expect: wrong # args: should be {::n info children}
or there is somethig missing in the language reference documentation?
3. Dynamic Object aggregation improvement issues
I think would be useful, especially for performance reasons, that dynamic object aggregation have more introspection functionalities at core language level: for example at the info children command could be added options that returns children filtered by children class (and object names and ... ?)
More in general,an useful feature could be returning all children that match some assertions (something like an invariant list)
Attilio
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