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Re: Need help with Class-Allocated Slots
rwk@americom.com wrote in message
<20000622090331.4309.qmail@gorn.americom.com>...
>Forgive me for asking the obvious, as I am sure it has been stated
>before if this was discussed previously, but why isn't a direct
>mechanism for accessing class slots designed into the language?
During the design of Dylan, I proposed that class slots be accessible
by calling the accessor on the class object itself, but Moon didn't like
it because it confuses class vs. instance. I agree with Moon on the
exact point, but I still think that the semantics of my dumb-ass proposal
are well enough understood, that it is probably reasonable.
> > "Ron Franke-polz" <ron.franke-polz@iac.honeywell.com> writes:
>> >
>> > > I've been playing around with slot allocation and am wondering if
there is a
>> > > way to access "class allocated" slots without having an instance of
that
>> > > class?
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