>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Raab <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de> writes:

Andreas> In certain places it is critical that the class of an object cannot be
Andreas> forged. Otherwise you would need to know beforehand which methods you can
Andreas> send to proxies and which ones you don't. However, I agree that there's no
Andreas> need for having #class generate that byte code so some really long and
Andreas> annoying selector (like primitiveUnforgableClassOfObject) or somesuch might
Andreas> be in order.

Or "class" and "basicClass", following the "new" and "basicNew"
pattern, with ProtoObject defining class as "^self basicClass", and
basicClass spitting out the inline special bytecode, but class no
longer being a special.

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