Re: property inheritence

lowee (starnet!apple!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!lowee)
Wed, 23 Jun 1993 09:33:42 -0700 (MDT)

> And what about automatic reversion? If you set an object's property
> to the same value as its parent, does it revert to inheriting
> automatically,
>
>> that seems bad. If I set an object's value specifically, its might be
>> because I'm trying to isolate it from changes to its parents.

I agree. This would create some confusing behaviour I think. When I set a
property, I want it set to that value, and not suddenly change on me.
It would be very confusing if I set a field property value to the same
thing as the card, not realizing I had done so, and then went back and
changed the card property.

>
> or do you have to set the property to empty to resume
> inheriting?
>
>> That's the more general behavior.
>

This to me makes much more sense.

-Earle

lowee@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
The University of Calgary