Craig

I have the impression that your Selector is a bit like  
selectorNamespace of SmallScript?
David simmon introduced a different Symbol equality.
Stef


On 25 mai 06, at 07:08, Craig Latta wrote:

>
> Hi Colin--
>
> > > Being able to associate multiple methods with the same method
> > > signature avoids another major source of collisions (and places
> > > similar demands on the tools that unconstrained class names do).
> >
> > Oh? That's an aspect of Spoon I was unaware of. Can you point me
> > toward a more thorough description?
>
> 	Sadly, no, not yet; I'll just have to write one here. :)
>
> 	The next version of Spoon has a subclass of Symbol, called  
> Selector. (I use a new Selector class for this so as not to disturb  
> traditional notions of Symbol identity.) The Selector class  
> implements multiple selector tables (similar in concept to a normal  
> symbol table). An author can specify via the tools that a method's  
> selector is not identical to any existing selector, and so should  
> be in a new table.
>
> 	When an author attempts to compile method source that uses a  
> selector that appears in multiple selector tables, the system asks  
> for disambiguation (e.g., by presenting the lead comment from the  
> corresponding method sources). The number of selector tables the  
> system maintains at any given moment is equal to the number of  
> meanings held by the most-overloaded method signature in the  
> system, and the system does reclamation as necessary (via weak  
> references). Method dictionaries use Selectors as keys, instead of  
> Symbols.
>
> 	Again, since behavior is transferred from one system to another  
> without relying solely on source code, this scheme is feasible.
>
> 	I'm not sure how much this feature would actually get used,  
> though. At this point it's more of a marketing-checklist thing. :)
>
>
> 	thanks,
>
> -C
>
> -- 
> Craig Latta
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