Re: Can't add new GTK 2.16 methods to GtkStyle

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

Kevin Ryde wrote:
> > There might be a lot of code out there relying
> > on get_property() being Glib::Object::get_property().  I still think
> > that's broken, since there's no guarantee that subclasses avoid naming
> > methods "get_property".
>
> Oh, well, you hope as a "social" matter when a subclass overrides it
> does so in a kinda compatible way, so things you could do on the
> superclass still have, mostly, the same result.  There must be some oop
> jargon for degrees of extending, narrowing, or whatnot of subclass
> method semantics must there?

For jargon, there's the Liskov substitutability: 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle>.

> > • Make Gtk2::Style::get() call gtk_style_get(), but leave
> > get_property() alone. This has a precedent in Gtk2::TreeModel.
>
> That's the one I like the sound of.

OK, I removed the get_property() alias for Gtk2::Style::get().