[Caml-list] Delegation

[skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>]

With the module system, I can write a functor requiring
a function called 'foo' with some signature.

When I instantiate the functor I can construct
a module argument 'on the fly' to rename any function
I'm passing like:

	let g () = ...
	module M = F (struct val f = g end)

So that the names used in the functor are arbitrary
and can bind to any entity with suitable renaming.
[At least I gather this is the intent]

Is there a way to do this with classes?

A typical problem is: our class actually has
the correct methods, but they're named wrong.
A extension is: we have the right method,
except the argument order is different.
An extension of that is: we don't have exactly
the right methods, but we can easily construct them.

All these cases can easily be solved with a proxy object
that delegates most of the method calls, perhaps with
some argument reordering or minor fiddling.

But is there a convenient way to construct such objects
anonymously at the point needed? After all class types
are signature based ..

Hmmm.. can I write:

	(fun o -> object method f: init = o#g end)#f

given o has a method g of suitable type but wrong name?

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