[DISCUSSION] Is Squeak/Smalltalk able to do this?

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Feb 10 20:44:13 UTC 2003


>   As I recall, you mention 4
> different techniques for control message sending.  Of the 4 
> approaches, one
> approach was method wrappers and another approach was a vm change to
> intercept the lookup.  I took the latter approach, while Nathanael's 
> Traits
> work takes the former approach, I believe.

By the way Traits do not need message passing control. They are static 
composition
with a clever and simple semantics. So some simple optimization makes 
them work well.
  No magic/MOP/Mirror needed.



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