I use org.reflections: Reflections reflections = new Reflections("com.mycompany"); Set<Class<? extends MyInterface>> classes = reflections.getSubTypesOf(MyInterface.class); Another example: publ... Read More
Here is the list of all inheritable properies. I'm working with W3C's information, so I'd guess it should be correct. But knowing web browsers (IE specifically), some of these might not be inheritabl... Read More
You are calling the wrong class name in your super() call: class SimpleHelloWorld(IRCReplyModule): def __init__(self): #super(IRCReplyModule,self).__init__('hello world')... Read More
Suppose constructors were inherited... then because every class eventually derives from Object, every class would end up with a parameterless constructor. That's a bad idea. What exactly would you ex... Read More
I just read about this topic in The Well-Grounded Rubyist (great book, by the way). The author does a better job of explaining than I would so I'll quote him: No single rule or formula always result... Read More
With ECMAScript5's Function.prototype.bind things get pretty clean: function newCall(Cls) { return new (Function.prototype.bind.apply(Cls, arguments)); // or even // return new (Cls.bind.... Read More
Overriding basically supports late binding. Therefore, it's decided at run time which method will be called. It is for non-static methods. Hiding is for all other members (static methods, instance me... Read More
In Swift language, we have Structs, Enum and Classes. Struct and Enum are passed by copy but Classes are passed by reference. Only Classes support inheritance, Enum and Struct don't. So to answer yo... Read More
As you wrote, what Go has is not really inheritance, the method that allows inheritance like features is called Embedding. http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#embedding What it means basically i... Read More
Nope, there is none, unless you do the mapping yourself. C++ has no mechanism to create objects whose types are determined at runtime. You can use a map to do that mapping yourself, though: template<... Read More