Recipe 5.12: Creating an Autochained Method (Descending)

Last Updated: Sep 8, 2003 Status: Draft

Problem:  

You want to create a method in your class that exhibits the same autochaining as constructor methods. Whenever invoked, your method should be called first in parent classes, then in your subclass, automatically.

Solution:  

Discussion:

(If Perl6 has code to perform autochaining of constructors/destructors, it might be nice to expose that to the user in such a way as to allow them to easily create other methods with similar behavior. It's a useful technique, after all.)

Issue: Is there any well-informed consensus on which direction should be called "descending" and which should be called "ascending"? :-)

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