On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:55 PM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:19:34AM +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
I ask without knowing anything of the background or context. I have just
saw
it and I cannot understand very much why it is like that. I ask myself if composition would be better. Probably is something related to SLANG, but I don't know.
Yes, that is right. Organizing the Interpreter as a subclass of ObjectMemory makes things simpler for the C code generator, which creates one C module for all the methods in Interpreter and its superclasses. I think this was probably a case of doing the simplest thing that could possibly work.
Thanks Dave. I am trying to understand, that's all. So...suppose I want to have an instance of ObjectMemory as an instance variable of Interpreter and delegate to it instead of inherit, this won't work with SLANG? I image that inter.c has both Interpreter and ObjectMemory because of the inheritance. Then, if I do what I said, SLANG, or the translator, or the someone I don't who, cannot correctly put everything together in a inter.c in the same way it is done right now ?
Thanks!
Mariano