Re: Requirements for Class Variables for Objective-C

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From: Gregor Kiczales
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 06:14

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With regard to the question about what kind of class variables people
want, here is a comment from another community.

> 1 -- each subclass has its own copy of its parent's class variables
> 
> 2 -- all subclasses share a single copy of their parent's class variables

In CLOS, we did 2.  It seemed natural, and it works well.  But, there
are plenty of cases where what users want is 1.  Fortunately, in CLOS,
the Metaobject Protocol makes it easy for users to add this kind of
class variable themeselves.  But, given that you don't have a Metaobject
Protocol, I would say do both 1 and 2.

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