a wrinkle in on-demand behavior transfer

Craig Latta craig at netjam.org
Sun Jul 4 17:28:02 UTC 2004


	Markus Gaelli writes:

> I guess that you have to store also the absence of an overwritten
> method. So even if the new class Foo is already present in the
> system, but "name" is called the first time on an object of it, you
> look up name on the kitchen sink image, as you did not flag it as
> absent yet. As in your example it is there, you just load it, if it
> had not been there, you flag it as "definitely not here" in the
> method-dic of the class Foo, and are faster the next time - I think
> it should not hurt too much, if you let the method lookup find a
> "definitely not here" vs. a "not here". ;-)

	Hmm, the simulator-based solution sounds simpler than that. :)


	thanks,

-C

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