> On 24 Jan 2015, at 14:24, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> On 24 Jan 2015, at 11:24, Marcus Denker <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[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…
>
ok, in 40463 AbstractInstanceVariableSlot will be renamed to IndexedSlot (so if
you subclass it, you need to change the supeclass in your code)
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Marcus
