Another aspect is, that frames are the only kind of object reference source which is not accessible by reflection. Having some kind of reflective access to this would allow several new behaviors in the meta layers.
I've done a lot of work in pushing reflection to the limit, and being able to scan and mutate the stack would be absolutely awesome. With this, e.g. Ruby's object space would be implementable in plain Java, as would Smalltalk's become:. Kresten --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
