Re: Distributive -> and indirect slices

[John Porter]

Simon Cozens wrote:
> Better is to solve the general problem, and have all
> operators overloadable even on non-objects, so the user
> can define how this sort of thing works.

Even better is to let the user have access to the real
objects by which "non-objects", i.e. normal variables,
are implemented.  That is, to remove the "non-object"-ness
of normal variables.

(I'm not disagreeing with Simon, just twisting the idea a
little.)

-- 
John Porter