May 2, 2007
3:45 a.m.
On 02/05/2007 12.00, Christian Tanzer wrote:
Nearly always wrong? You must be kidding. There are tons of reasons to call your super method with modified arguments. E.g. clipping, transforming, ...
Really? http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/
Hmmm.
I've just counted more than 1600 usages of `super` in my sandbox. And all my tests pass.
And you don't follow any of the guidelines reported in that article? And you never met any of those problems? I find it hard to believe. The fact that your code *works* is of little importance, since the article is more about maintenance of existing code using super (and the suggestions he proposes are specifically for making code using super less fragile to refactorings). -- Giovanni Bajo