Re: GOOPS plans

[Marius Vollmer <mvo at zagadka dot ping dot de>]

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> 
> > Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:
> > 
> > > However, references to slots will be taken over by the accessors.
> > 
> > I think it should be possible that the slot metaobject and the
> > accessor are one and the same object.  Whether that buys us anything,
> > I don't know, but it would look kinda nice to me.
> 
> How do you mean?  I presume you now talk about the accessor method.

Yes.

> Note that the slot definition object contains several pieces of
> information, not only connected to slot access.  It may also contain
> lots of extra stuff, depending on the metaclass.

Yes, it should be possible to derive a slot-object from <method> or
something and add the missing pieces.
 
> We might also want to create multiple accessors per slot...

Hmm, I would regard them as multiple slots then that happen to share a
storage place.

But I don't see the advantage of unifying slot-objects and
slot-accessor-objects.  Just a thought.