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Re: Wormholes

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On 03/09/2012 9:12 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> I run into this sort of problem fairly often.
>
> I have a method x that calls method y through a long chain of
> intermediate calls.
>
> I decide to add a feature.  Method x has access to information to
> decide if the feature should be implemented.  Method y is where the
> implementation is.

Are these methods in many separate classes and objects, or just one? If 
x, y, and all the intermediate c1..cN methods are in the same class, 
it's pretty easy to create a private (or protected) variable to be set 
by x and used by y (and presumably other equivalents of y if x has to 
invoke a different long chain of intermediate calls). Though this isn't 
thread-safe if multiple threads can call x.

If y is a method of a separate class, there ought to be some way to 
return the object z on which y would be invoked and have x invoke 
z.y(...). But perhaps for some reason you can't revise the code that way.

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Wormholes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-03 18:12 -0700
  Re: Wormholes eric@invalid.com (EricF) - 2012-09-04 02:06 +0000
    Re: Wormholes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-04 10:08 -0700
    Re: Wormholes Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-09 13:55 +0200
  Re: Wormholes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-09-03 22:34 -0400
    Re: Wormholes Stuart <DerTopper@web.de> - 2012-09-04 12:15 +0200
  Re: Wormholes markspace <-@.> - 2012-09-03 21:00 -0700
    Re: Wormholes Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-04 07:08 +0200
  Re: Wormholes Zermelo <zermelo@teletu.it.nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-04 08:47 +0200
    Re: Wormholes Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-09-04 03:10 -0700
      Re: Wormholes Zermelo <zermelo@teletu.it.nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-04 16:09 +0200
        Re: Wormholes Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-04 08:34 -0700
          Re: Wormholes Zermelo <zermelo@teletu.it.nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-04 17:46 +0200
            Re: Wormholes Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-09-04 09:31 -0700
        Re: Wormholes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-09-04 11:14 -0700
        Re: Wormholes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-09-04 19:59 -0400
    Re: Wormholes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-04 13:20 -0700
      Re: Wormholes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-09-04 20:00 -0400
      Re: Wormholes Zermelo <zermelo@teletu.it.nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-05 09:01 +0200
      Re: Wormholes Zermelo <zermelo@teletu.it.nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-05 09:02 +0200
      Re: Wormholes Zermelo <zermelo@teletu.it.nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-05 09:02 +0200
        Re: Wormholes Zermelo <zermelo@teletu.it.nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-05 09:03 +0200
      Re: Wormholes markspace <-@.> - 2012-09-05 17:34 -0700
  Re: Wormholes Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-09-04 14:18 +0100
    Re: Wormholes Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-05 21:51 +0200
      Re: Wormholes Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-09-05 23:26 +0100
        Re: Wormholes Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-09-06 09:32 +0000
          Re: Wormholes Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-09-06 11:47 +0100
            Re: Wormholes Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-09-06 15:10 +0000
              Re: Wormholes Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-09-06 20:12 +0100
                Re: Wormholes Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-09-06 21:08 +0000
  Re: Wormholes Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2012-09-04 17:26 +0100
  Re: Wormholes Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-09-04 09:28 -0700
  Re: Wormholes David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-09-04 16:54 -0400

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