> On 24 Jan 2015, at 11:24, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> One of the power of slots is the concept of Virtual Slots that do not have an
> ivar to store their state.
> But of course, some uses fo this concept want to store state in the object.
> (e.g. imagine a property slot, all proper slots of the object would store
> into a property dictionary).
>
> The idea is that one can add iVars reflectively that are hidden from both
> introspection *and* the class
> definition. (the inspector should get a view to see reality, of course,
> similar to how we tread Dictionaries and OrderedCollection:
> The “basic” view is not relavant in most cases, it is just available in
> addition, the default is the high level view that is closer
> to the “mental model” of the programmer).
>
> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14786/Slots-add-HiddenInstanceVariableSlot-and-rename-AbstractInstanceVariableSlot-to-IndexedSlot
>
> <https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14786/Slots-add-HiddenInstanceVariableSlot-and-rename-AbstractInstanceVariableSlot-to-IndexedSlot>
>
Ups, loading the Slice crashes the VM :-)
This kind of shows why doing these things in tiny, tiny steps is they way to
go…
Marcus
