I see. I think that what you have implemented is all that is needed. I retract my proposal. -- Karl From dougo@ccs.neu.edu Tue Feb 25 09:30:45 1997 From: Doug Orleans Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:30:42 -0500 (EST) To: lieber@ccs.neu.edu, dmann@mars.org cc: johan@ccs.neu.edu Subject: Re: There must be a better way.... > It seems that you should also be able to write: > > MyButton = *extends* netscape.application.Button. > > but this is not possible with the current Demeter/Java. I thought about adding it, but it would be pretty tricky, because of the "." that ends a class definition. In fact I don't think previous versions of Jack could do it, but now with lexical states it's probably possible. Making the user import the needed external classes seemed like a good idea anyway... --Doug