> On 24 Mar 2018, at 21:21, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Stateful traits inspired me to reread the flexible object layout paper and I
> came up with a few questions about slots:
> - What is the plan for tool support? For example, it seems that to make
> slots discoverable like any other class or message, "References to it"
> should include class definitions, which should be the primary slot client.
Yes, these things need to be done.. I have a very large TODO list for this but
it is hard to find time
> - Why does IndexedSlot have a #name slot? I thought the index and name were
> "either or" for instVars.
This is the name of the variable. Even though an init-var is accessed by index,
it still has a name
(e.g. #x in Point).
Marcus
