On Sunday 04 March 2007 19:13, Alek Storm wrote: > In fact, these vtable methods *encourage* the use of many languages in > a single application. For example, without these methods, programmers > have to be aware of the semantics of the Smalltalk object system and > use extra code when dealing with Smalltalk objects, breaking > abstraction. With them, however, interoperability is complete, and > the Smalltalk object semantics are still satisfied.
Are you intending to use these to store instance attributes? I thought the point of these was to store annotations on PMCs--something very different from member variables. Perhaps the discussion would be clearer if you were to sketch out the specific behavior you would like to enable in the HLL. -- c
