full isolation

[Ned Konz]

On Monday 07 March 2005 10:44 am, Alexandre Bergel wrote:

> One serious issue concern meta programming. I believe that achieving a
> descent isolation mechanism require a complete overhaul of the reflective
> facility. It seems that the Self mirror mechanism would provide an
> interesting solution...

I agree with this, partly because of the necessity to have reflection on 
as-yet-unloaded modules. Taking the responsibility out of Class/Behavior and 
moving it into model classes that represent the classes (and other artifacts) 
would be considerably cleaner.

I'd rather ask a mirror of (say) a package or module about its contents, etc. 
than have to go to a (global) SystemNavigation or whatever it's called today.

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Ned Konz
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