Hi, In message "Re: new method dispatch rule (matz' proposal)" on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:53:58 +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter / sun.com> writes: |In truth, though, I am still interested in the reason why the original |Rule 3 is useful in the presence of the other rules. If there is a |reason I would very much like to know. There are some code that override methods that are called via functional style. I wasn't sure it was OK to abandon them. Besides that, unoverridable (public) methods seemed bit contradict to OO concept in my mind. matz.