On 03.07.2014, at 10:21, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Now classes with special Slots are shown with a special class definition 
> (this is just a stand-in, not
> final… e.g. we need to add first class globals and think about what to do 
> with #category… so we
> will see. For now please treat this as just a stand-in for playing with 
> things.
> 
> 
> <slots.png>
> 
> The idea is that we need to actually use it and then see what to change in 
> the next iteration.
> 
> And it should stay always compatible: if you do not use special slots, it is 
> compatible, if you do,
> you get more power at the price of not being portable to other systems. But 
> even in this case,
> the slots do give value: e.g. we will be able to add very very easily 
> breakpoints or reflectively
> change behaviour for a slot (without chaining its definition). This will be 
> very powerful.
> 
>       Marcus


Sounds exciting! But I don’t quite get what ‘special slots’ are and what they 
can do. Is there any resource I can take a look at to get a better 
understanding?

Cheers,
Max

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