Alternative directory/file classes?
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon Mar 12 17:58:40 UTC 2007
And how does one create "flat" MC files?
Cheers,
- Andreas
Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> Traits are defined in such a way that they can be flattened.
>
> At the moment this does not happen at load time as you assume, but at
> the time at which the mcz creation. This means that pre-traits MC works
> unchanged with flat mcz files, at the cost of needing to create flat and
> unflat variations on each.
>
> Daniel
>
> Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Adrian Lienhard wrote:
>>> If the package does not include any traits it should work also in
>>> previous images. If this is not the case let me know. Of course if
>>> you have traits, you cannot just load that into a pre 3.9 image.
>>
>> Why not? Wasn't the idea that traits methods get "inlined" when they
>> are loaded into older versions? And if it's about the traits
>> definition itself, a little compatibility package (introducing class
>> Trait and just treat the traits defined in the package as subclasses)
>> should go a long way.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Andreas
>>
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