[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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