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Article #203At the boundary of the MOP?
From: Thomas_E_Morgan
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 22:04
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 22:04
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I'd appreciate some comments on something which may be at the boundaries of the MOP. I have been doing some work which involves taking over the slot storage for metaclass instances. The purpose in doing so is to experiment with a fully versioned environment, where the values of slots, as well as the slots hemselves are versioned. Behaviors get version too, for that matter. I have been using the July 92 PCL as the basis for this, and of course things aren't quite working - versioning of slot *values* is fine, but something isn't quite right in my take over of the management of the slot storage for the metaclass instances. I'm quite sure that I can get this to go (things like this worked, allowing for names, in the May 90 PCL), but I am curious to hear what the opionions of skillful MOP'ers are. Am I beyond the pale here? This question has also made me curious about exactly where the limits of the MOP design are, and how those limits might be described. (Something better than: "Whatever you can do, by changing the behaviors of the GF's in the AMOP book" If anyone has one, I would also appreciate any working example of taking over slot storage for metaclass instances. ...Tom M
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Thomas_E_Morgan From: Thomas_E_Morgan@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.clos Subject: At the boundary of the MOP? Message-ID: <65076@cup.portal.com> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 15:04:29 PDT Organization: The Portal System (TM) Distribution: world Lines: 30