[Q] perform:

Anthony Hannan ajh18 at cornell.edu
Wed Feb 12 17:20:58 UTC 2003


Alexandre Bergel <bergel at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> The implementation of the Classbox model need a VM method lookup modification. But I also would like to come with a changeset which doesn't require a such new VM. Like that people can play with it. The tradeoff will be the speed.
> > You could (I think) come up with a different compiler for the classes 
> > of interest that would send #perform:.
> That was I tought, but I prefer to ask than to make some wrong assumption.

If you don't mind real slowness, you could wrap objects that need this in
a proxy that intercepts the message on doesNotUnderstand: then forwards
it.  Just override #new in the desired classes to wrap the result
before returning it.



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