“Cecil has predicate objects, which allow virtual “subclasses” to be defined carrying specialized methods that override their parent’s methods whenever some boolean predicate over the object is true. In this way, inheritance can be used to model time-varying and/or state-dependent properties of objects just like permanent properties of objects” (from the Cecil homepage)
Now, this is kinda interesting because I was thinking about something a bit like this about a year ago. And furthermore, Cecil has a tasty looking feature list – multimethods, optional polymorphic static typesystem (if you don’t supply static type information, typechecking is done at runtime), closures, and a Self-like classless object system.
And for something completely different. Someone stole the front quick-release from my bike, outside work today. They didn’t take the whole wheel, which was left neatly in place. They just removed the quick release mechanism. How annoyingly strange. Time to arrange a webcam pointing at my bike ..