[Seaside-dev] Re: WAContext Refactoring

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Lukas" == Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> writes:

Lukas> But a process is also an object, isn't it? Philippe and I had a look
Lukas> at the GemStone code and thought that it should be feasible somehow to
Lukas> attach additional state to a Smalltalk process. This state doesn't
Lukas> have to persist, it just lives as long as a request is handled.

So you could use a WeakDictionary mapping a process to its properties, and
hide that behind a #properties method?  Can GemStone handle that?

In fact, it could be implemented that way in all versions, then you wouldn't
need a special GemStone version.

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