Torsten Anders wrote:
Thank you, I might actually be using this in my code!
Just a related question: how is an inherited method etc. of a class
looked up? I mean, do all these intermediate classes add a performance
penalty when, say, this very first method in Methods is called?
There is no performance penalty in Mozart. Each class uses a dictionary
to map its method names (including the inherited ones) to procedures.
The table is built when the class is created. The method lookup is thus
simply a hash table lookup. Moreover, A does not keep any implicit
reference to its ancestors, unless you use static method calls (with the
comma operator).
Cheers,
raph
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