On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/16 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
> > Hi All,
> >     in working on Cog I need the concept of "here class", the class of
> the
> > current method.  Analogous to super, where a lookup starts above the
> class
> > of the current method, here class is the class of the current method.  if
> > you're for example collecting sets of selectors for translation to C then
> > you need to talk about the selectors of this method's class, not the
> > selectors of some subclass which may simply extend the base class a
> little.
> > One clumsy implementation is the following
> >     thisContext method methodClass
>
> > which one might use as in
> >     thisContext method methodClass theNonMetaClass selectors do: [:sel|
> ...
> > Given this isn't important enough to change the language and add a new
> > pseudo-variable such as hereClass I just want to add it to ContextPart,
> e.g.
> >     thisContext thisClass
> > Anyone done this before, and if so what did you call it?
>
> If you're want only to short-cut writing:
>
>     thisContext method methodClass
>
> then why use other selector than methodClass?
>
> Btw, in Pharo image (which i currently running) there is already such
> thing, implemented as:
> ContextPart>>methodClass
>        "Answer the class in which the receiver's method was found."
>
>        ^self method methodClass ifNil:[self receiver class].
>
> A method stamp reads:
> md 2/17/2006 18:41 · debugger access
>
> so it looks like it been there for a while.


Good. methodClass it is.  Thanks!



>
>
> > Anyone have strong opinions on the selector (not the technique; needs
> must
> > when Slang drives)?
> > Anyone have strong opinions on whether I add this as a kernel method or
> just
> > keep it as a VMMaker extension?
> > Best
> > Eliot
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>
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