"RokuJoel" wrote:
Hi, as you noted "b" prevails. That would be the standard behavior that I don't think we would want to change. Of course, its software, so everything can change if someone decides to make it so as a matter of policy, or accidentally breaks something...
Hi - appreciate an answer but since you don't seem certain, please run this by "a higher power" and get definitive answer that it will not in fact change.
It is customary to fix such details in the API and document that too. As i pointed out this is the guaranteed behavior in other languages (although there they use more fortunate name like ".update()" which just by name implies the behavior).
I will give you a reason so my question does not seem capricious: i intend to use this for (home-grown, class-less) object inheritance, so that new methods override parent's existing methods.
