On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Ian Eslick <esl...@media.mit.edu> wrote:
> There is an :inherit slot keyword option for indexed slots. It causes > subclasses of the defining class to share the index of the base class. You > can inhibit subclass sharing by re-defining the slot in the base class. I > found a bug in unstable and patched it so this works again. As far as I can tell, this feature is now missing. Am I mistaken? > > > Calling map-inverted-index (and the top-level API fn's > get-instances-by-value/range) from the base or subclasses will return > instances for all classes that share that base index. We could add some > refinements such as mapping from a subclass filters out any superclass > instances during the traversal. > > We can easily add a keyword arg to map-class and get-instances-by-class to > return all subclass instances as well. > > Ian Red
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